RE: updates not over the web

[Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC <Steve Binyon kirtland af mil>]

I have a simliar problem, in which none of my redhat boxes (14 and growing)
are not on the internet.  So currently I download them one by one to my NT
box and then write a CD and distribute them onto the the Red Hat machines.
Since these machines are not on the Internet, they are not in the RHN
database and therefor no update messages (like I get at home), though I get
messages through bugtraq.  The updates I cringed at are XFree86, Gnome, and
KDE, the number and sizes of these packages makes a long download even at T1
speeds.
Hopefully the management will notice this and allow me to attach a RH box to
the T1 and then I can up2date with the option to save the rpms to a seperate
directory.  Its a task in itself to keep up with the patches, which up2date
works very well only if you are attached to the internet.  Maybe a periodic
iso image of patches would help?  Just don't know, so I also open to
suggestions.

smbinyon  

-----Original Message-----
From: daniel [mailto:dan netgenetix com]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:48 AM
To: redhat-list redhat com
Subject: updates not over the web


just an odd question here
just recently i updated my 7.2 box with all the new rpm's redhat released on
their server
but then it occured to me:
what if i was in brazil with a dialup or something?
downloading 1 or 2 hundred megs is a bit of a strain on my only phone line
what do people do in this case?



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