Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
Okay, let me see if I understand this correctly. I want to do a fresh install. If I just pull down everything that exists on the "Updates" page of the Fedora site, and stick them on a CD, will that be adequate? If so, will yum pull from the CD if I do not have a connection?
Thanx, Ryan
I know that up2date can be configured to use a local directory to install/upgrade from. U2date is the tool that I use mostly.
<excerpt from /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources for up2date> ### A local directory full of packages (a "dir" repo). For example: #dir my-favorite-rpms /var/spool/RPMS/
I'm not too familiar with yum. I am not sure if it needs a tool run on the local storage directory or not for local sources. I ran createrepo or a similar named tool once before the new styled repo information files were actually being used. I did not actually use the local repo that was created.
I think that the idea would work and am not sure if the additional CD's option during install would use these RPMS or not to bypass having to install the older packages or not. This would be a nice improvement for bypassing broken X, lost internet or any other possible problems that have been fixed since the introduction of the release.
Jim
-- Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. (Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum)
