Installing an uptodate Fedora on a 2nd machine

[Dave Mitchell]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 02:59:00AM +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:59 +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> > Just to note, I've actually simply copied the /var/spool/update/ to
> > the new PC and simply run up2date. It still goes to the net to check
> > for new files, but didn't download the ones already in the spool
> > directory.
> 
> Ah yes, I've done that too.  Though you do need to have an internet
> connection working at the time to use that approach.
> 
> Now that I'm on FC4, and up2date doesn't work properly with it, I keep
> forgetting about up2date tricks.  That was one thing I liked about
> up2date (it using what it had, instead of downloading it again,
> regardless).  I haven't got YUM to play the same trick.

just copy /var/cache/yum instead

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