Dave Burns wrote:
I'd like to download all the rpms of security updates to fc7 since the release. I will be using a machine running fc6, so "yum -y update" won't actually do it. If getting just the security updates is hard, I'd settle for getting all the updates. If for some reason getting the updates is hard, I guess I will have to try to make a private mirror of the repository. That's a bit more elaborate than I really need, but at least it has been discussed recently on the list. How should I choose a repository to get stuff from? Usually I just let yum do it, and I don't know what's going on under the hood. Is there some FAQ or howto I should look at? I tried googling and poking around, found the basic release rpms at redhat.com, but can't figure out where updates come from. Must be overlooking something obvious.
apt-get, on Debian, has the "--print-uris" switch just for this purpose. It prints a list of URIs for the packages needed to bring _this_ box up to date, then you can take that list to someplace else and shove into wget.
You might request it as an enhancement to yum. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 Please do not reply off-list
