On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:43 -0600, David Hoffman wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:34:42 +0000, Sharon Kimble <skimble04@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am shortly going to be in the situation of installing Fedora Core 3 onto a > > new desktop for my sister, which is then going to be located 150 miles > > away, used intermittently and only to have short bursts of dialup internet > > connectivity for emails only. The only means of updating it will be through > > updates burnt onto a CD and posted to her. > > > > Therefore, some questions;- > > A - What folders do I need to copy to the CD for yum to use when updating > > please? > > If you are going to send her a custom built CD with updates on it, you > could simply write a script that would do all the "rpm -i" or "rpm -U" > calls directly to packages that are also copied to the CD. > > OR you could go to the trouble of creating an entire repository on > your CD with all of the updated packages, editing her /etc/yum.conf > file or creating a repository with your local information in > /etc/yum.repos.d... and then have her mount the CD and run "yum -y > update" from there. > > The tricky thing is going to be having the entire repository on a CD. > In my opinion, you might be better off just knowing what packages need > to be updated, copying the rpms for those packages to the CD, and then > manually (or through a script) doing the updates. > > If you are intent on doing it the other way, here is a link to an > article that discusses how to do this: > http://servers.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/22/1718242&tid=29&tid=23&tid=42 Or maybe shipping her a disk with FC3 already set up? Can she do something like that? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian FahrlÃnder Christian, Conservative, and Technomad Evansville, IN http://www.fahrlander.net ICQ: 5119262 AIM: WheelDweller ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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