HOWTO update F17 machine with no internet access

[Mark Haney]

On 07/19/2012 08:27 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Mark Haney writes:
>
>
> 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.
>
> Each time after you rsync the updates directory, mount the flash drive,
> and just run 'yum update'.
>
> If another machine on your wireless lan has internet connectivity, you
> can just rsync updates somewhere in /var/www/html on that machine, then
> point your config to this url, as the update source.
>
>

I was actually thinking along those lines, but wanted to see if there 
were other (or better) options that I wasn't aware of.  Thanks for that.


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Mark Haney
Software Developer/Consultant
AB Emblem
markh at abemblem.com
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