Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > 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! > By the way what I do is to rsync /var/cache/yum/updates/packages and the corresponding packages for the other repos I use such as rpmfusion, fedora, updates-testing etc. I don't rsync the metadata - that way the metadata gets downloaded when yum runs, and then yum decides what is needed or not in the way of downloads for the current system. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/%22yum-update%22-with-most-of-the-rpms-already-on-a-USB-key--tp22286109p22295063.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
