On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:17 +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 02:59:00AM +0930, Tim wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:59 +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: > > > Just to note, I've actually simply copied the /var/spool/update/ to > > > the new PC and simply run up2date. It still goes to the net to check > > > for new files, but didn't download the ones already in the spool > > > directory. > > > > Ah yes, I've done that too. Though you do need to have an internet > > connection working at the time to use that approach. > > > > Now that I'm on FC4, and up2date doesn't work properly with it, I keep > > forgetting about up2date tricks. That was one thing I liked about > > up2date (it using what it had, instead of downloading it again, > > regardless). I haven't got YUM to play the same trick. > > just copy /var/cache/yum instead > If you have more than one machine, just dload on one then rsync to the others the yum cache like... rsync -avz /var/cache/yum/ machine.to.update:/var/cache/yum this just sends the new / changed files. Terry
