On 01/22/2005 06:33:17 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I am shortly going to be in the situation of installing Fedora Core 3 > onto a > new desktop for my sister, which is then going to be located 150 > miles > away, used intermittently and only to have short bursts of dialup > internet > connectivity for emails only. The only means of updating it will be > through > updates burnt onto a CD or DVD and posted to her. > > Therefore, some questions;- > A - What folders do I need to copy to the CD for yum to use when > updating > please? > > B - What commands will have to be used at the command line to tell > yum > to > update from the CD please? > > Hopefully thanks > Sharon. Hi Sharon. You can if you want steal my shell scripts that I use for such a yum update DVD for fc3 http://mpeters.us/linux/update_system.txt http://mpeters.us/linux/autorun.txt Put them on the top level of the DVD - rename autorun.txt to autorun and update_system.txt to update_system.sh Put update packages into a directory called RPMS.updates on the top level of the dvd If you mirror all the fc3 updates, you can mirror the repodata directory too. If you don't/need to put all updates on the DVD, use createrepo to create the metadata for RPMS.updates
