Fedora 7 updates on computers without internet

[jeff goudie]

Thank you all.  This is just what I was looking for and your examples will
be a big help!

On 8/9/07, Adalbert Prokop <adalbert.prokop at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> jeff goudie wrote on Thursday 09 August 2007:
>
> > Hello, I'm relatively new to Linux but learning more and more.   I've
> > read man pages on yum and quite a few excerpts from various threads on
> > updating Fedora machines, but haven't ran across on how to update
> > Fedora machines that don't have internet access.
>
> You must have at least one computer with internet access or else you won't
> be able to download the updates.
>
> On this computer you can either mirror the complete updates directory
> (there are several ftp/http mirroring tools available) or download the
> RPMS you need manually. Personally I use a little python script which
> behaves like a mirror tool and keeps only a list of files it already has
> downloaded. This way I do not have to keep the complete RPM mirror on the
> same machine on which I start the download.
>
> Anyway, afterwards you will have to start createrepo on the directory
> containing all RPMs. It will build the repository's metainformation.
>
> You can distribute this directory to all target machines by Samba/NFS/FTP.
> Simply add a apriopriate path on every target in /etc/yum.repos.d
>
> If you are interested in my mirroring script look at
>
> http://www.familie-prokop.de/linux-tools/index_en.html#partmirror.py
>
> --
> bye,
> Adalbert
>
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