On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 04:40, C.Lee Taylor wrote: > Greetings ... > > Will be testing 2.0.5 soon ;-} > > But, I have a question that has been puzzling me ... > > If I take a backup of /etc/yum.conf and /var/cach/yum ... Should I > not be able to do a yum -C update without having to access the internet? > > The reason I ask, I have had twice already were I have done a clean > install, copied the above mentioned files onto the computer from a tar > ball, and done an update, but the system complains that it can't get > some files and does not do the update ... > Are the machines entirely identical? /var/cache/yum/*/headers will only have the headers for packages that you DON'T have installed. Not the headers for ones you do have installed. -sv
