Robert P. J. Day-2 wrote: > > > 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. > > I do this all the time - in fact I update one F10 machine here and then rsync the rpms to my other f10 machines locally - then yum -y update on any of the other machines usually only has the odd additional update that yum grabs from the repos externally - yum knows that if the rpm is already in the cache it does not need to download it but if the correct rpm is not there for a package it then looks in the defined repos - in other works yum is much cleverer than you think! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/%22yum-update%22-with-most-of-the-rpms-already-on-a-USB-key--tp22286109p22294964.html Sent from the Fedora Test List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
