Hi; I posed the same question a while ago. I was shown how to write a script for yum that works successfully. It was much like the one suggested here. However .... On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 17:15 -0500, Chris Snook wrote: > Steven Stern wrote: > > Fred Silsbee wrote: > >> Let me explain: > >> > >> I just downloaded F10 dvd iso and burned it onto a DVD -R > >> > >> It works great and survived a number of tests. > >> > >> Question: If I repeat the procedure in a few months, will the data change due to updates! > >> > >> I.e. does the dvd iso image keep up with updates? > >> > >> If not, I'd expect that the backlog of yum updates would be staggering in a few months. > >> > >> > >> > >> > > See "re-spins" at http://fedoraunity.org/ > > > > More generally, we don't change the contents of any distribution file (be it > .rpm or .iso) without renaming it, except when we sign RPMs. Otherwise we'd get > false alarms all over the place about GPG signatures not matching, and then > people would ignore those warnings when their downloads got corrupted or an > attacker successfully served them a trojaned file. The rename may be as simple > as incrementing a version number or adding a datestamp, but something will change. > > -- Chris > since there seems to be a demand for it shouldn't yum have a '--from' option? Programs like rsync have such an option that directs the rsync program to read a text file that contains a list of programs that are regularly upgraded. In the case of yum -y --from /my/usual/upgrades, a user could simply maintain a list of programs to be upgraded in an 'upgrades' file and yum would know how to read it, keep signatures straight, etc. Just a thought, maybe for a feature request ... -- Regards Bill Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
