On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:30:22 -1000, Dave Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This would not help me, because the machine that has access to the net > and the yum repos is not the machine that is out of date. I don't want > to expose the out-of-date machine to the net until it has been updated > (feeling paranoid). I guess I should dredge around on the yum site to > figure out how to diff the fc7 original rpms and the current rpms. > Dave If that's your problem, setting up your fire wall on that machine to not allow inbound connections is a pretty safe way to keep from getting rooted while you are doing the updates. Note that there is a separate updates repository with the latest (and in a few cases some older updates) updates. You can even download the whole repository fairly conveniently if you have broadband. I would suggest doing this before Thursday, as the mirrors will be hit pretty hard for a while starting then.
