OffLine Updates

[Richard E Miles]

> A few months ago I downloaded all the updates and loaded them onto a CD. 
>   Now a colleague want to set up a system off line (that may go online 
> to a bandwidth limited account later).
> 
> What I want to do is loan him my CD and have, say, yum use the CD to 
> update his system?
> 
> Alternatively is ther some sort of shell script that I can use that will 
> check that he has a particular package installed then upgrade it if 
> necessary.
> 
> Does rpm -U -all check packages first?
> 
> Michael

As far as I know yum will not update from a cd. It uses the download repositories to download and update your system via rpm.
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Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097