On 6/6/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > You mean to put the above address in Fedora *6* repo? Right.
Thanks, Rahul. Paul
