On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 18:10:00 -0700 stan <upaitag@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 13:34:34 -0700 > Geoffrey Leach <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > My internet service comes over a satellite, and with it a relatively > > small monthly download allowance. Which motivates the following > > question. > > > > Once I have installed a new disto and downloaded the RPMs that I > > use, is there a procedure by which I could gather together > > everything that I have added, so that I could transfer the files > > (RPMs, or whatever) to a local system, without resorting to the > > internet? (Or, at least, to a significant amount!) > > If the two systems are the same version of fedora (or even different > versions if they use the same dnf layout), you can put > keepcache=1 > in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf to keep the rpms after they are installed. See > the man page for dnf.conf for an explanation. Those rpms are kept in > directories like /var/cache/dnf/fedora-[hash]/packages/, with a > directory for each file in /etc/yum.repos.d. You can then copy them > to the other machine's similar directory, and they will reside there > until you decide to remove them. > > If the cache gets too full with the keepcache option, you can go into > the directory and remove the packages individually, or you can run > dnf clean packages > to remove them from every cache. > > But, I have to wonder why you are doing this. Unless you are updating > another machine, and want to save the bandwidth from happening twice, > once the packages are installed, you should never need them again on > the same machine. That's why the default for keepcache is 0, so that > cleanup occurs whenever a successful update happens. > > This is a lot simpler than setting up a local repository. I forgot to say that the rpms are signed, so if you want to use them on an older system, that system will need to have its fedora-gpg-keys package, and probably its fedora-repos package, updated to at least the version of the system that installed them. Usually simple dnf update will work for version n-1, but beyond that you will have to use --force with rpm, or turn off gpg checking in dnf, because the system dnf won't have the keys to check the updates. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
