On 11/5/07, John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The machine needing the updates needs a list of what's > available (new metadata) to produce a list of what it needs. > So... If i went to another machine running fc7 and did a yum makecache and then transferred some file to the not-updated fc7 box, then it would know what it needed. How would I then ask yum or rpm to generate the list of packages? yum -C checkupdates? Yeah, I am going to turn off services and then update directly, this is too much. Thanks to all, Dave