On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:15:34 -0700, Richard E Miles wrote: > > A few months ago I downloaded all the updates and loaded them onto a CD. > > Now a colleague want to set up a system off line (that may go online > > to a bandwidth limited account later). > > > > What I want to do is loan him my CD and have, say, yum use the CD to > > update his system? > > > > Alternatively is ther some sort of shell script that I can use that will > > check that he has a particular package installed then upgrade it if > > necessary. > > > > Does rpm -U -all check packages first? > > > > Michael > > As far as I know yum will not update from a cd. It uses the download repositories to download and update your system via rpm. You can mount the CD, run yum-arch in a writable directory above the mount point and point yum.conf to that location. --
