2009/3/2 Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > adding cost < 1000 to your repos in yum.conf will do the work or installing yum-priorites and setting the priorities of the repos. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
