Installing an uptodate Fedora on a 2nd machine

Terry Kemp tkemp at mer-med.com
Tue Oct 11 21:42:43 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:17 +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 02:59:00AM +0930, Tim wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:59 +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> > > Just to note, I've actually simply copied the /var/spool/update/ to
> > > the new PC and simply run up2date. It still goes to the net to check
> > > for new files, but didn't download the ones already in the spool
> > > directory.
> > 
> > Ah yes, I've done that too.  Though you do need to have an internet
> > connection working at the time to use that approach.
> > 
> > Now that I'm on FC4, and up2date doesn't work properly with it, I keep
> > forgetting about up2date tricks.  That was one thing I liked about
> > up2date (it using what it had, instead of downloading it again,
> > regardless).  I haven't got YUM to play the same trick.
> 
> just copy /var/cache/yum instead
> 

If you have more than one machine, just dload on one then rsync to the
others the yum cache like...
rsync -avz /var/cache/yum/ machine.to.update:/var/cache/yum
this just sends the new / changed files.

Terry




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