 | | | How to get RPMs without up2date? | How to get RPMs without up2date? 2004-02-24 - By Bob Gorman
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At 01:33 PM 2/20/2004, Hamilton Andrew wrote:
>This solution may or may not work for you depending on what you want to do, but it may give you some other ideas. I do something like this because I have servers that don 't ever connect to the internet and they have to updated as well.
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>I have up2date configured to save the rpms after the install, I do an up2date -u via a cronjob, which works just fine. I then have the job move the newly installed rpms into a repository that is then transferred into my interior nework. I then have jobs that update my interior hosts, and I never lift a finger. You might get some use out of that and you might not or as they say "your mileage may vary... ".
Yes, that 's more or less what I do now. Except I used wget instead of up2date. The real questions is: How do we get RPMs without the use of up2date?
Why do this? Because up2date is a functionally delinquent application. It is incomplete and inefficient.
One can not download past or specific RPMs, or event all RPMs, for/from a given channel.
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