On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 19:50, Mike Vanecek wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 15:34:21 +0100, Jon Peatfield wrote > > > >I have been asking around and have just about come to the conclusion that it > > > >don't exist. I would like to get CD(s) (or downloadable ISOs) containing all > > > >RH 9 updates (SRPM and i386 RPM) up to the point of EOL. I'd like to avoid > > > >having to download all the individual packages. With all the mirrors and > > > >legacy work going around, I was hoping someone had already put together an > > > >ISO. Does anyone know of a source? > > > > > > I did something similar for RedHat 7.3 at its EOL. The frustrating > > > thing (as a former RedHat mirror admin) is that RedHat doesn't really > > > have a policy for removing superseded errata from the updates tree. > > > Upon request, they've periodically purged the updates tree of old RPMs, > > > but even RedHat 9 still has duplicate packages. Once they do that, it > > > doesn't seem too difficult to produce an ISO (or two). > > > > I make use of a handy repostory maintenance script (rh_buildtree > > written by Peter Benie who works in a different department here), > > which given a set of directories full of rpms constructs/maintains a > > directory which contains the latest version of all those packages > > which pass a signature-check (as hard-links to whichever source they > > were from -- original shipped version, updates, local-packages etc). > > Interesting. I finally just downloaded all the updates and put them on a CD. I > did have to do some editing to get rid of the old duplicate RPMS (moved them > to a folder by themselves). Have you (and other folks) checked out the RedHat-CD-HOWTO? It contains detailed instructions for using the anaconda-runtime package to generate your own CD's (and/or network installation source tree) including errata packages. I've done this for 7.x through 9 in the past and it works very well. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
