-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 21:51:57 -0700, Frank K wrote: > Mostly I want to know if there is some requirement for having to do this all > with up2date. If that's the case it isn't going to happen. > > I am in a fringe area for internet access. Here 28.8 is tops and a connection > only lasts for a few minutes at a time. In all evening I got two Cups rpms > and half a dozen tries at Ghostscript. > > I got the package list for my system and I think update --download --package > put all the headers I need into /var/spool/up2date. > > What I want to do is download the rpms to match these header one at a time > from RH without using up2date. I would put each file into /var/spool/up2date. > If and when I accomplish this I would run up2date --install. > > Is this a workable strategy? If I get to a place with higher network bandwidth > and my rpm list I can shorten the time to collect all these pieces. Yes, it works. Note that it would be better for you if you downloaded the RPM packages from a nearby and reliable FTP/HTTP or even RSYNC server. Rsync does downloads based on checksumming which could safe you some bandwidth. You can either put the downloaded files into /var/spool/mail or point up2date to a directory which contains packages, see "up2date --help". - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3GZN0iMVcrivHFQRAvGEAJ9kmvSTCgUFYWKYG2kcNgqUxQzzfgCfXJuc PR6iy/UqbFALE/71M0LtjHQ= =J7w6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
