Re: Downloading updates with up2date

[Inaki Sanchez <isanchez unav es>]

There has been a recent thread on this issue: https://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2005-February/thread.html#00408
There are several ways to accomplish this. One solution could be this one (pasted from the thread above) by Tom Sightler:

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For the channel that the current system is subscribed to this is an easy
one-liner:

up2date --get `up2date --showall`

This will download all of the packages from the currently subscribed
channel for that machine (this includes subchannels that the system can
be optionally subscribed to).  You can control where the downloads are
placed with the --tmpdir option.
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Then you can configure yum on all of your servers to point this local repository.
I am using this for a while without any issue.

Regards,

--
Inaki Sanchez
Centro de Proceso de Datos
Universidad de Navarra

mailto:isanchez unav es
http://www.unav.es


User Lists wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   i have four servers with RHEL 3 U4 installed. I
> would like to use one of them for central repository
> server (enterprise bandwith is very poor). For this
> pourpose I will use yum on clients side. 
>
>   My question is for the server side: Is it possible
> to download all updates for U4 with up2date??? All
> four servers are registered on RHN, but each one of
> them has installed different packages. My pourpose is
> download all updates with up2date command ...
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
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