[Yum] Using a fast internet connexion to update a computer with a slow one

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Daniel Gagnon wrote:

> > However, it would be nice if yum had the option
> >   yum list updates --with-dependencies
> 
> Hum...  I guess that :
> 
> yum update
> 
> Then saying "no" when asked if it is ok to download would do the same.
>  However, how can I know which rpm is from which repository ?

You can construct a "wget pkg1 pgk2 .. " command for lftp and invoke
it separately for each repository (from different locations)

mkdir repo1
mkdir repo2
cd repo1
lftp url1
wget pkg1 pgk2 .. 
cd ../repo2
lftp url2
wget pkg1 pgk2 ..

Now you when you go back to the slow-link machine - you can easily
copy the .rpm files into the correct /var/cache/yum/repo/packages
location and then invoke:

yum -C update

Satish