[Yum] Re: Yum updates without Internet Connections ...

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 12:17, C.Lee Taylor wrote:
> Greetings ...
> 
>     Thanks for your quick responce ...
> 
> >>    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?
> >
> 
> > Are the machines entirely identical?
> 
>     Yes, installed with a Kick Start scripts ... if you want, I can do a
>     rpm -qa | sort > rpmpacks.log
>     And diff them to see if there is a differance, but I am sure there 
> is not ...
> 
> > /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.
> 
>     Okay, this makes a little sense ... I will check this ...
> 
>     So, if I have installed glib updates, the headers will be deleted 
> after yum update?
> 

no they won't be deleted unless you run clean oldheaders

-sv