Re: Archive RPMS on disk during installation.

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:07:15PM -0600, Sherwood Botsford wrote:
> I never get it right the first time.  Since computers now come 
> with large disks, it would be reasonable to archive the rpms as 
> the CD's are read.  (Perhaps /usr/share/rpms/FC6-install)
> By doing this, later changes to the software wouldn't require 
> internet access or shuffling CD's.

Although it's prone to perhaps-surprising breakage if you've installed some
security updates but don't also mirror the updates repo locally.

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