Can yum download to a pen-drive?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 22:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2008 21:40:03 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 18:49 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On a laptop with the LiveCD install I have the problem that I can't
> > > network, as the PCMCIA card is not recognised.  I have since found that
> > > the LiveCD itself can recognise and configure the card.  That makes me
> > > wonder if I could
> > >
> > > a) install downloadonly onto the RAM-drive
> > > b) use downloadonly to yum the updates, saving them to a usb pen-drive
> > >
> > > Any advice on how this might be done?  Thanks
> >
> > Just copy /var/cache/yum to the pendrive. To use yum to install them at
> > a later date, set up a local repo (Google is your friend).
> >
> <light switches on> Download packages on another box then move to pen-drive?  
> But presumably I'd have to download all the packages so that the correct ones 
> can be selected.  How many GB is that?

It's called a DVD ...

I installed F9 Preview and immediately copied the whole DVD to a local
repo. That's the way to avoid selection hell during the install, and in
fact it's the only way (apparently) to stop yum from dl'ing everything
all over again when you want to install something you hadn't thought of
the first time.

If you have a net connection, of course it all integrates nicely, but if
not then yum will just work with what you have.

poc