Timothy Murphy wrote:
I am running Fedora on a number of computers. To date I have "up2date"d each of them separately, but this obviously involves download duplication.
So this time I gave the command up2date -d --tmpdir=/opt/Fedora (a directory I had created).
(1) Now I have the downloaded files in /tmp/Fedora . I know I could just run say "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" in that directory. But is this the correct thing to do?
From my understanding, the -Uvh would install all rpms within the directory. I think that -Fvh will only install newer versions of programs that are already installed on the machine. (Freshen verses upgrade)
(2) I'm not clear if up2date keeps a record of downloaded RPMs other than the list in /var/log/rpmpkgs*. Can installing packages "by hand", ie by rpm, cause any confusion?
To my understanding, there is only the one location for information. (no duplicated efforts)
(3) Do the files in /opt/Fedora represent a valid "repository"? If so, what entry do I add to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to make up2date look in /opt/Fedora ? Also. if this entry appears first, will up2date look there, and then look at the "standard" entries, eg ============================== yum updates-released http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/ ==============================
There is an entry way down on the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file that allows you to enter a local directory that up2date will use. I used it and it works pretty decent.
Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.
-- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Hopefully this helps a bit.
Jim