On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 19:07 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
Dave Burns wrote:
I'd like to download all the rpms of security updates to fc7 since the release. I will be using a machine running fc6, so "yum -y update" won't actually do it.
If getting just the security updates is hard, I'd settle for getting all the updates.
If for some reason getting the updates is hard, I guess I will have to try to make a private mirror of the repository. That's a bit more elaborate than I really need, but at least it has been discussed recently on the list.
How should I choose a repository to get stuff from? Usually I just let yum do it, and I don't know what's going on under the hood. Is there some FAQ or howto I should look at? I tried googling and poking around, found the basic release rpms at redhat.com, but can't figure out where updates come from. Must be overlooking something obvious.
apt-get, on Debian, has the "--print-uris" switch just for this purpose. It prints a list of URIs for the packages needed to bring _this_ box up to date, then you can take that list to someplace else and shove into wget.
You might request it as an enhancement to yum.
I dunno, wget will not update just the newly created parts, as Presto does. I wish smart would catch up to this as I much prefer it to overall general front-end use. Presto be WAY cool IMHO. Ric