Hi everyone,
I have an isolated network of computers (i.e. behind a 'firewall' made
of air so no access to the net) but would like to be able to use yum on
the network. Simple enough - I have set up a yum server on this
network. My issue is that I would like to avoid maintaining a full yum
mirror. A full mirror would waste resources (time, disk space, net
usage) because I would be downloading and transferring gigabytes of rpms
that aren't actually required.
The solution I have in mind is to use yum on a different computer that
is attached to the net to download the necessary packages and then
transfer them. However, this computer won't have the same set up: it is
i386, not x86_64; Fedora 10, not Fedora 11; has different packages
installed.
So my question is: it is possible for yum or associated utils to operate
relative to a package list and architecture that differs from what is
actually installed on the system? (All documentation that I have read
suggests that yum always takes the system's current state.)
Thanks,
Phil
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