On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:30:22 -1000, Dave Burns tburns@hawaii.edu wrote:
This would not help me, because the machine that has access to the net and the yum repos is not the machine that is out of date. I don't want to expose the out-of-date machine to the net until it has been updated (feeling paranoid). I guess I should dredge around on the yum site to figure out how to diff the fc7 original rpms and the current rpms. Dave
If that's your problem, setting up your fire wall on that machine to not allow inbound connections is a pretty safe way to keep from getting rooted while you are doing the updates.
Note that there is a separate updates repository with the latest (and in a few cases some older updates) updates. You can even download the whole repository fairly conveniently if you have broadband. I would suggest doing this before Thursday, as the mirrors will be hit pretty hard for a while starting then.