Local cache / 'repo' of updates and added RPM's

[Jay Mistry]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 23:32:48 +0530,
>  Jay Mistry <jaylinux53 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had to re-install Fedora 10 on a home desktop PC. In regard to this:
> >
> > Is it possible to have a local cache/ "repository" of all
> > 1) Updates (Critical, Security, Bug-fixes), and
> > 2) Additional installed rpm's (that were installed through PackageKit),
> e.g.
> > Opera, Adobe Reader, etc.
> > so that I do not have to download all those again (800 MB + D/L)
>
> Sure. Just put the rpms of interest in a directory, run createrepo on the
> directory and set up an appropriate repo description in
> /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo for some value of *.
>
> For myself I usually mirror the relevant arch parts of updates and
> updates-testing and only put a few special things in a local repo.


As an extension of this: is it possible to upgrade a Fedora 10 install to
Fedora 11, by using the Fedora 11 DVD as a local repository ? This would
save me (and also lot of other people who do not have fast Internet
connections and/or with time-capped Internet subscriptions), a lot of
bandwidth and time (and $$).

(As a 'by the by', I also prefer the Fedora 10 theme & artwork ('Solar'
theme) over Fedora 11's).

Thanks,

Jay

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Fedora 10, Ubuntu 9.04  (i686)
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