Bob Goodwin wrote, On 02/26/2009 02:45 PM:
Now I'm stuck. The simplest thing would be to reinstall the system but
bandwidth for updates is killing me. Wildblue is a satellite service and
I'm limited to 17 Gigs/30 days. I hate to keep burning up my bw.
Suggestion:
1) in /etc/yum.conf set keepcache=1
2) every so often copy the contents of /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/ (or if
your on F9 /var/cache/yum/updates-newkey/packages/) to an external media
(DVDs/USBHD).
3) when you have to reinstall you can copy the rpms back to the packages/
directory and yum will see them and know that it does not have to re download
them. [it still has to get/extract the headers, but they are small.]
This is also a useful trick when you have several machines to update that are
running nearly the same install, i.e., by copying packages/ from the first to
later machines, the later machines only have to download the packages that the
first machine was not running. :)
--
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
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