yum localupdate compains arguement list too long

[George Arseneault]

--- Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:15:08AM -0800, Barry Yu
> wrote:
> > I downloaded and stored all the rpm update
> packages in folder where I plan to use for other new
> install of Fedora systems so each of them won't need
> to do yum update through Internet. 
> > When I used yum localupdate
> /mnt/allrpmupdates/*.rpm, the yum displayed  a
> message "arguement list too long" and then stopped
> doing anything, when I issued yum localupate
> /mnt/allrpmupdates/a*.rpm , yum started the local
> update and I have to repleat yum localupdate b*.rpm,
> c*.rpm to z*.rpm.
> > Is there any way to use the yum localupdate to do
> the localupate at one time ?
> 

createrepo /mnt/allrpmupdates/

then add a repo entry to point to this directory and
enable it. (file:///mnt/allrpmupdates/) and they
should show up automatically when you run
yum/pup/yumex/kyum

note: you will have to run the createrepo command when
you add/delete files to update the metadata.


 
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