On 6/6/07, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 01:44 -0700, stan wrote: > In a month or so when the load on the fc7 mirrors is lower I will > upgrade this system to fc7 the same way. However, instead of using yum > to get the packages I will use wget -c to download all packages in a > repository to the hard drive. I'm not sure how to use that as the > repository for yum; it looks like it can be done with a baseurl > directive in the /etc/yum.conf.d/"main".repo file. This should cut the > header iteration time to about 15 minutes though it won't help with > install time. It will double hard disk requirements. Just a heads up: I've created deltarpms for the fc6->f7 update process. I'm not sure what bandwidth you have, but using deltarpms will probably cut the bandwidth by a huge amount. The deltarpms are for an updated FC6 box that you want to yum upgrade to Fedora 7. You will need to install yum-presto and then, in your fedora 7 .repo file, add "deltaurl=http://www.lesbg.com/jdieter/dist_upgrade/fc6-f7/i386";. Then, just do yum update. Jonathan
presto is a good option if you have a fast processor, lots of memory, and a slow connection or ISP download quotas.
