i am in a similar situation. something that may work, but i have not tried, is to have the two machines have exactly the same software installed, and after you use yum to update the office machine, copy the /var/cache/yum dir to your home machine and do a yum -C update there. this wont work if the machines have different software, i tried that (full install vs partial on fc2, no go) allan On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Jack Tanner wrote: > One of my computers (call it home) has no internet access. When it used > to have internet access, it was happily running fedora core 2 and yum. > I'd like to keep updating the packages on it using yum. I'd like to have > it work like this: > 1. copy home's /etc/yum.conf, /var/cache/yum tree, and rpm database to a > removable medium (e.g., zip disk) > 2. take the zip disk to an internet-enabled computer (call it office), > and run yum to download updates to the packages in the home's rpm > database according to the repositories from home's yum.conf, and store > them in home's /var/cache/yum tree > 3. take the zip disk home, and run the local yum such that it takes the > updated /var/cache/yum tree and updates local packages accordingly > 4. repeat steps 2-3 as necessary > > Is this even possible? How do I extract home's rpm database (step 1), > and then have yum update it (in step 2, as opposed to updating office's > rpm database)? > > How do I do 3? What if home's rpm database has changed between 2 and 3, > e.g., by removing an installed package? > > When I go to do 4, do I need to restart from 1, or from 2? > > Thanks in advance. > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
