does the DVD ISO for F10 ever change?

[stan]

Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:12 -0700, stan wrote:
>> eg  rpm -qa > package-list.txt
>>
>> Edit this to make it a shell script with yum and run it.
>>
>> eg yum -y update  package name on each line.

This was my first idea, just put backslashes at the end of 
each line, easy with an edit macro.
> 
> An improvement could be to modify your package list text file to change
> the line feeds to blank spaces, then feed that to one yum command.  A
> problem with that *may* be if the list was very long.
>
Yeah, it is the same as a yum update with lots of packages. 
  It takes forever and any interruption wrecks the whole 
transaction.  It also takes a lot more resources, so if you 
have constraints, the individual updates will work better. 
I'd imagine that the intermittent download of a few packages 
at a time is easier on the servers too though that might be 
a questionable assumption.  Note that I'm not necessarily 
looking for the *fastest* solution, just a stable dependable 
solution.

> Of course, if your next upgrade is an install, you could give that
> package list to anaconda, and let it handle it.
> 

Thanks for the pointer.  There is no man page but a search 
turns up http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda as the main 
page and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options for 
command line options and 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart for 
kickstart scripting for anaconda.

I'll look into this as a means of update and install.