HOWTO update F17 machine with no internet access

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 08:27 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 
> Mark Haney writes:
> 
> > I'm sure this has been answered before, but I'm having trouble finding it.   
> > Mainly due to the fact I'm not entirely sure what to search for. Anyway,  
> > I've got a F17 system, which, for various reasons, does not have internet  
> > access.  It does sit on a small wireless LAN, however.
> >
> > What I need is a HOWTO or pointers on how I can keep this system updated.  
> > I've never encountered this situation before so I don't know what's the best  
> > way to handle this with the current software.
> 
> Pick your favorite mirror, and rsync its updates directly, to a flash drive,  
> or something similar. Set enabled=0 in everything in /etc/yum.conf.d, then  
> just copy one of the configs and point it to the mount point of the flash drive.
What is the meaning of  configs in the above sentence? 
> 


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