Dialup users and keeping a system updated

[Chuck Peters]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21/05/12 07:49, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>> When asked if this is OK, say No.  Should then get a line that reads
>> something
>> similar to...
>>
>> yum load-transaction /tmp/yum_save_tx.2012-05-21.14-46.yuA8Tw.yumtx
>
>> Take the yum_save_tx.2012-05-21.14-46.yuA8Tw.yumtx to the system with the
>> fast
>> connection and run...
>>
>> yum load-transaction /tmp/yum_save_tx.2012-05-21.14-41.O26_49.yumtx
>> --downloadonly
>>
>> The files are saved in /var/cache/yum/i386/16/updates/packages  (more or
>> less)
>>
>
> You can also say where to download the files:
> yum load-transaction /tmp/yum_save_tx.2012-05-21.14-41.O26_49.yumtx
> --downloadonly --downloaddir=/where_you/want_to/save_the_files

I tried and it didn't work.
[cp at fedora tmp]$ sudo yum load-transaction
/tmp/yum_save_tx-2012-05-21-21-54cbd9xI.yumtx --downloadonly
[sudo] password for cp:
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Error: rpmdb ver mismatched saved transaction version,  aborting.

Perhaps it is because my friend is running Fedora 15 and I have Fedora 16.
Hopefully it will work once we both upgrade to Fedora 17 in the near future.

My earlier comment about needing 300MB of updates was clearly off.  I am
updating her nvidia right now Total download size: 23 M and the updates I
just finished were over 600MB.

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================
Install       8 Package(s)
Upgrade     295 Package(s)
Remove        4 Package(s)

Total size: 603 M
Total download size: 22 M

Thanks,
Chuck