On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:06:33AM -0400, ipv4firewall@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Frank K <frankk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Hello List, > > > >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. > > > >Regards, Frank K > > > My connection doesn't get better than 28.8 either. I use gftp to download the rpms from updates.redhat.com. I then move them to the directory /var/spool/up2date/. The next time I run up2date it will tell me that the rpm is already downloaded and go ahead and install it. Or to put it another way. up2date does not work well over a modem to download updates. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
