On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:03:37PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Matthew Miller wrote: > >You'll probably want the latest (security-patched) versions of everything, > >not the DVD ones (so long ago!) so downloading from the net is still my > >recommendation. > That's why I said, I also have all of the updates for FC5 already > downloaded on that NFS. I maintain some 15 servers and having each one Oh, sorry, I missed that bit. > download updates every time is a waste of time, so I keep a local copy > of both the source CDs as well as all the updates, then run updates on > each machine that way. But, I use rpm for all that stuff, never yum. > This'll be a fun experience I'm sure... > Thanks for the yum repo pointer. If you're merging the updates together, you'll need to run createrepo to make a new yum repository. If you're mirroring the official updates areas, that's already done. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
