keeping up2date from going to rhn

Blackburn, Marvin Marvin.Blackburn at glenraven.com
Fri Feb 25 17:50:07 UTC 2005


Thanks for the suggestions! 

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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Sears
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 12:48 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: keeping up2date from going to rhn
> 
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 11:29 -0500, Blackburn, Marvin wrote:
> > I have several systems that are very similar in configuration.
> > I have downloaded the rpm's and headers into a tmpdir.
> > 
> > Is there anyway I can run up2date against this tmpdir
> > without having it go out to rhn and looking for "newer" packages.
> possibly by setting it up as a local yum repository and editing 
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> to point at it?
> 
> if it is just package downloads you want to avoid, you can
> up2date -u -k /tmp/dir:/other/tmp/dir
> to tell up2date to look in those directories for package files
> > 
> > What I want to do is build a static depot to go against, and 
> > upgrade my 5 systems over the next month, without worrying 
> about newer
> > packages that may come out.
> you could also just cd to the relevant directory and...
> rpm -ivh kernel-2... (for the *latest* kernel you have there)
> rpm -Fvh *.rpm (to install the relevant updates from all the remaining
> packages)
> 
> Stuart
> 
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