On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:16 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote: > FWIW: > > I know that this is not supported but I have updated a couple of > machines with yum after creating a local (LAN) respository, installing > fedora-release-4-2.noarch.rpm and using a custom (baseurl) localyum.conf > file. > > The last time I tried this was with yum-arch which is now deprecated by > createrepo. > > So far, nothing appears to be broken. YMMV! YMMV! I also did the same thing for one machine - it's headless and so installing from an install CD would have been a real PITA. Worked flawlessly. Though I was scared for a moment because when I rebooted it, I couldn't ping it. Then I remembered I had burned a Knoppix CD in it and never removed it :D
