Robert P. J. Day venit, vidit, dixit 02.03.2009 14:57: > On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Mike Cloaked wrote: > >> >> >> Robert P. J. Day-2 wrote: >>> so, just so i don't misunderstand, i want to do a *full* system >>> update, but i want to specify a local directory to check *first* >>> for any necessary rpm files before venturing online, in order to >>> minimize downloading. is that what's going to happen here? >>> thanks. >> One option is to plug in your usbkey, and then rsync or cp the rpms over to >> /var/cache/yum.... on the system you are about to update. Then yum -y >> update will update the full system, and only download any additional rpms >> into /var/cache/yum/ that it needs over and above those you copied in from >> the key. > > i thought of that and was fairly sure it would work, but that > approach has two issues: > > 1) i wasn't *absolutely* sure that yum doesn't squirrel away any > accompanying meta-info as it's populating /var/cache/yum so i was a > little nervous about just dumping a pile of extra rpms in there which > yum itself didn't stash there. > > 2) on some systems, /var might be a separate filesystem and just isn't > capable of handling 1 or 2 Gig of packages tossed into it. (yes, > yes, symlinks, i know. :-) > > hence wanting to specify an additional local repository to be used > in conjunction with the standard online one. i'm still a little > nervous about the earlier suggestion of: > > # yum localupdate /location/of/updates/*.rpm > > in my mind, specifying an explicit list of rpms to "update" always > makes me think that it should be trying to update *exactly* that set > of packages. that's not what i want -- i want a full system update > for which i can identify a convenient local directory that can contain > any useful *subset* of packages that don't need to be downloaded. localupdate only updates the mentioned packages, plus dependencies. But you can always follow up with an ordinary "yum update". > sort of: > > # yum update --look_here_first <local_dir_name_full_of_rpms> > > is that what that "localupdate" incantation is going to do? and if No, see above. > so, isn't there an appropriate option to specify just the directory, > rather than having to wildcard the entire set of rpm file names in > that directory? cp'ing/rsync'ing over works fine. If you do this often it may be worthwhile to "createrepo" on the stick and to specify that repo as a permanent yum repo. Michael -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
