On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 22:23 -0500, Chris Betti wrote: > Another idea I had was running Yum remotely. For example, running Yum on > a modern system with plenty of resources but telling it to calculate > everything based on the old system. Is this feasible, perhaps with some > work? Is Yum's code modular enough that it can serve information from > the old system to the new system for dependency processing and XML > processing with just a little work? You could mount the remote system's root via NFS/CIFS and use --installroot, but only if the systems use the same metadata format (rpmmd vs. yum-arch), and if you don't mind possibly opening security holes in your network. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20051129/fa0c0825/attachment.bin
