On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, 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. 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' usually is sufficient (except for updates that introduce new depencies) If you'd like to use yum - you can always create a local repository for these updates (perhaps create this info & burn it into the CD) To use the updates on cd via yum, the process would be: - by whatever means - create a local repository location. For eg: mkdir /tmp/yum-local-repo cd /tmp/yum-local-repo cp /mnt/cdrom/*.rpm . [or ln -s /mnt/cdrom] - Now create the yum header info yum-arch . - Add this new repository location to /etc/yum.conf [local-updates] name=Local Udates via CD/copy baseurl=file:///tmp/yum-local-repo - Now 'yum update' should work. Satish
