On 11/29/05, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Keep in mind that some RPMS will get angry if they find out they're being installed over nfs share. A couple packages have %post scripts that will not agree with some of the *cough* "security" provided by nfs mounts (root_squash). They'll either hang, or they'll fail to update certain things. -- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
