Installing from an Updated list of RPMS using NFS

[jim lawrence]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:13:30 +0000, Tony Molloy <molloyt at keano.csis.ul.ie> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to install FC3 using the latest RPMS over NFS. This means I have
> to build an updated set of RPMS on my NFS exported partition. This
> worked with no problems on FC2.
> 
> I copy the FC3 disks to my NFS exported partition. Copy over the updated
> version of the RPMS. Tidy up the  Fedora/RPMS directory removing any
> duplicated RPMS.
> 
> I then run genhdlist
> 
> [root at richmond mnt]# /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --productpath
>                                 Fedora  /mnt
> 
> no errors
> 
> Now I understand you have to run pkgorder after this and then genhdlist
> again. So I run pkgorder and get the following traceback error.
> 
> [root at richmond mnt]# /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>          File "/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder", line 12, in ?
>          from anaconda_log import anaconda_log
>          ImportError: No module named anaconda_log
> 
> What's the correct way to do this, Thank's.
> 

i haven't conjured up enough courage to do this but here is a how-to 
http://czarc.net/HOWTO-Updating-fc3.html
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Jim Lawrence
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