[Fedora] Re: Adding X to existing installation

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:03:37PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> >You'll probably want the latest (security-patched) versions of everything,
> >not the DVD ones (so long ago!) so downloading from the net is still my
> >recommendation.
>    That's why I said, I also have all of the updates for FC5 already 
> downloaded on that NFS.  I maintain some 15 servers and having each one 

Oh, sorry, I missed that bit.

> download updates every time is a waste of time, so I keep a local copy 
> of both the source CDs as well as all the updates, then run updates on 
> each machine that way.  But, I use rpm for all that stuff, never yum.  
> This'll be a fun experience I'm sure...
>    Thanks for the yum repo pointer.

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.
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