On 21/11/03, at 14:51 +0200, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)welho.com> babbled:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, bishop wrote:
> Klaasjan,
>
> Do you have the time to write out a mini-howto on that? I have a
> feeling that your instruction can help a few people following in your
> footsteps, and who may not have the opportunity to figure out a working
> solution by themselves.
>
> Me, I need one that can reliably do it from 5000km away. It'll be
> loop-mounted ISOs, apt-get and similar craziness, I think. Or I need to
> book a flight. 8-) Either way, I'm not the target audience, but I'm
> close. ACME@cl says that CL can do it with just apt-get, and that's
> incredibly interesting.
Ok, since you need a remote upgrade then apt/yum/up2date is needed. For
apt you basically need to create a local repository of the RPMS. Suppose
you have the iso's mounted in /mnt/yarrow1, /mnt/yarrow2 and /mnt/yarrow3,
I'd probably do it somewhat like this (watch out for typos and thinkos, I
wrote this from top of my head so not tested.. ):
mkdir -p /var/tmp/fedora/RPMS.core
cd /var/tmp/fedora/RPMS.core
ln -s /mnt/yarrow1/Fedora/RPMS/* .
ln -s /mnt/yarrow2/Fedora/RPMS/* .
ln -s /mnt/yarrow3/Fedora/RPMS/* .
genbasedir --bloat /var/tmp/fedora
The add that to your sources.list: "file://var/tmp fedora core"
Must be a
typo error from you. I think that the correct expression is:
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rpm file:/var/tmp fedora core
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With kind regards,
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