[Yum] Questions re desktop 150 miles away.

[Joe Sauer]

On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 14:33 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I am shortly going to be in the situation of installing Fedora Core 3 onto a
> new desktop for my sister, which is then going to be located 150 miles
> away, used intermittently and only to have short bursts of dialup internet
> connectivity for emails only. The only means of updating it will be through
> updates burnt onto a CD or DVD and posted to her.
> 
> Therefore, some questions;-
> A - What folders do I need to copy to the CD for yum to use when updating
> please?

The easiest thing for you to do would be to mirror one of the updates
mirrors (including all the info yum needs, read the man page...) then
edit your /etc/yum.conf or /etc/yum.repos.d/*  Use the
file://path_to_cd_repository in one of those...

so you'll need to read:
man yum
man yum.conf


> B - What commands will have to be used at the command line to tell yum to
> update from the CD please?

then just run yum -y update

Have fun.

regards,
Joe
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