On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Jim Wildman wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Ian Masterson wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, we'd have the same problem as running 'up2date -d'. The RHN > > proxy only caches those packages which have been requested by clients. It > > doesn't seem to be any easier to get all packages from an RHN proxy than > > it is to do the same directly from RHN. > > So grab an old box, put 'everything' on it and register it. Or > designate one of your newer boxes for the same purpose. And mark, 'save > packages after installation' and 'retrieve source rpms'. Or beat RH about the head and ears about wanting a trivial software tool that doesn't require hundreds of users to burn an entire computer doing something that is clearly a useful and common thing to do well within the capabilities of simple software. That would work even better. I'm not sure that "everything" would install on any single box. What are you going to do about installing smp kernels on a non-SMP box? What about add-on packages? What about package dependency conflicts (which should not exist, of course:-)? Maybe they should just provide a button that says "build local yum repository"... rgb > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.rossberry.com > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
