On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:42:19PM -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote: > I run rawhide at home, but my network connection is only a 256/128 DSL. > This makes large yum updates (like today's 385ish MB behemoth) rather > lengthy. OTOH, I have an OC-48 network connection at work, with a > Cygwin installation on my office PC. > > What I'd like to do is generate a list of properly formatted filenames > from the yum list updates command on the rawhide machine, then take that > list to work and feed it to a script that wgets each file from a mirror > over the OC-48 connection. Then I can just dump the files to a thumb > drive and do the update from it when I get home. Can you set up a cron job to slurp it in starting some time after you usually go to bed? -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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