[Gllug] Questions re desktop 150 miles away.

[Alan Peery]

Sharon Kimble wrote:

>A - What folders do I need to copy to the CD for yum to use when updating
>please?
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In /etc/yum.conf, there is an entry called "cachedir".  If you copy that 
from your machine to a CDROM I think you'll be off to a good start.

>B - What commands will have to be used at the command line to tell yum to
>update from the CD please?
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I suspect that doing this directly from the CDROM won't work, as yum is 
probably constructed with expectation that "cachedir" is writable.  You 
can give it a try, but I think that copying the contents of the CDROM to 
the cachedir of your sister's machine and then running yum as normal 
will give you better results.

I have not done any research into the internals of yum to prove this 
technique safe, so you should consider it experimental and make sure you 
have backups.

Alan

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