David Cary Hart wrote:I presume the updated RPMs we get with yum/up2date/synaptic/etc. have been compiled and tested individually, and against the most up to date versions of the other packages in the repositories.On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:30:57PM -0500, jim lawrence wrote:just for curiosity sake, i went to check the date of the ISO for DL from redhats site [ ] FC3-i386-disc1.iso 03-Nov-2004 17:05 617M [ ] FC3-i386-disc2.iso 03-Nov-2004 17:07 638M [ ] FC3-i386-disc3.iso 03-Nov-2004 17:08 637M [ ] FC3-i386-disc4.iso 03-Nov-2004 17:10 386M [ ] FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso 03-Nov-2004 16:59 76M [ ] MD5SUM 03-Nov-2004 18:00 791Why would i want to DL these and then do 300 + updates after a install, why doesn't these ISO's get updated every month?Are you volunteering to compile and test interim distributions? On most of my machines, synaptic and yum don't work: no network connection. Even worse, a couple of my friends really like the FC1/Planet CCRMA installations I set up for them, but depend on dial-up modems. I burned FC3 ISO images for them, but the initial update is really painful over a dial-up line. Is there a way I can collect all updated RPMs on this machine, and create apt-enabled (or yum-enabled) CD image(s) to bring to non-network machines? I don't usually need up-to-date ISO images, but would really like to be able to mirror repositories locally. Rather than releasing the entire updated system, monthly releases of update CD's would be nice. I know how to use apt-get for download only, but this gets RPMs that don't interface with the package manager properly. Is there a tool to create the additional data that apt/yum need? So far yahoo/google hasn't revealed such a tool, but repository managers must be using one. In addition, I have a desktop machine which won't boot with FC3 (it does work with FC1/2). I've been told I need to install a 2.6.10 kernel to fix problems with this MB. But If I boot from the rescue disc, I can't unmount it to read from a CD with the kernel RPM on it. I'm planning on solving this problem by pulling the hard drive, and installing it in this machine temporarily. |