No, not identical. On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 18:50:49 -0300 "George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 at 17:35, 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!) > > > > Is the "local system" identical to the one where you did the initial > installation? > > In a former life, with RHEL versions 4--6, I used a local mirror for > the packages needed to support our use cases. When there were > updates, they appeared in the mirror and systems updated from there. > I don't recall there being a lot of guidance for creating a local > mirror, more a matter of trial and error to get a local mirror > working with a small get of packages. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/MockSetupUsingLocalMirror > seems to be roughly the same vintage. The example uses a .xml > list of packages which you could adjust to what is needed at your > site. > > I also had a mirror for Ubuntu. I recall using rsync excludes in > a mirror script, but that may have been used for Ubuntu. > > > > > -- > George N. White III _______________________________________________ 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
