[Fedora] Re: Adding X to existing installation

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:13:18PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> >If you're merging the updates together, you'll need to run createrepo to
> >make a new yum repository. If you're mirroring the official updates areas,
> >that's already done.
>    Not sure.  I run rsync on /fedora/core/updates/5/i386/ from one of 
> the mirrors, nothing else.  Then I run 'rpm -Fvh' on that local folder.

That should do it -- look in the 'repodata' subdirectory there.

Using yum for updates has a lot of advantages over rpm -Fvh -- you probably
want to be doing this anyway.

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