On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 19:07 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > 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. I dunno, wget will not update just the newly created parts, as Presto does. I wish smart would catch up to this as I much prefer it to overall general front-end use. Presto be WAY cool IMHO. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
