Bob Gustafson wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 16:54 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I have here the beta ISO, the snapshot ISO, and the contents of /var/cache/yum
which I run with cleanup off. When the final release day comes, is there a way I
can tell jigdo to use that combination to reduce the network traffic and server
load?
RELATED: can I do some magic on /var/cache/yum to get the old install DVD to use
the new stuff? My test with createrepo seemed to generate a local repo which
worked for after the fact install and update, I'm just trying to avoid
installing obsolete packages and blowing them away again, on a slow machine that
really rots.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
I think it is possible to use an old DVD (such as a test preview disk)
as one of the repositories for jigdo. Then you only need to download
component rpms that are newer than what is on the DVD.
That's what I'm trying to avoid! I *have* all of the RPMs, or at least many of
them, in /var/cache/yum, because I have "keepcache=1" in /etc/yum.conf. That's
how I speed updating multiple machines, they all share (at least at update time)
an NFS mounted /var/cache/yum.
But when I 'createrepo' on the cached RPMs I get a repo I can use for update
*after* the install, while providing other repos at the time of the install so I
don't install the old package and then update it, but install the latest the
first time. So I want to build a new install DVD, but make use of all the stuff
I have already downloaded.
In theory, you could use this process to get increasingly more recent
test DVDs, using the last test DVD as a repository. You only need to
download the changes. Would speed up the Test-Change-Test cycle too.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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