[Yum] Yum updates without Internet Connections ...

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 04:40, C.Lee Taylor wrote:
> Greetings ...
> 
>     Will be testing 2.0.5 soon ;-}
> 
>     But, I have a question that has been puzzling me ...
> 
>     If I take a backup of /etc/yum.conf and /var/cach/yum ... Should I 
> not be able to do a yum -C update without having to access the internet?
> 
>     The reason I ask, I have had twice already were I have done a clean 
> install, copied the above mentioned files onto the computer from a tar 
> ball, and done an update, but the system complains that it can't get 
> some files and does not do the update ...
> 

Are the machines entirely identical?

/var/cache/yum/*/headers will only have the headers for packages that
you DON'T have installed. Not the headers for ones you do have
installed.

-sv