On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:15 -0500, Julie Sloan wrote: > Hi all, > is there a way I can save a copy of my urpmi updates to disk, so that if I > need to reinstall / I can also reinstall the updates without having to > download for hours? > > thanks > Julie
Use the --noclean switch. The rpms will be in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms. I maintain several systems that are in rural areas where the telephone lines are literally nailed to the fenceposts and updating on-line would be expensive. I update my Mandrake machine here at the lab with "urpmi --update --auto-select --noclean --wget" and then make a cd with the updates that I can carry up the bayou. Once there, I copy to the hard disk, define a source like "urpmi.addmedia rpms101 file:///root/rpms101" and urpmi.update rpms101 (if I've added to it since defining it) and then just "urpmi --auto-select" does the update. Works really well; urpmi is better than apt-get or anything else I've used for this situation. HTH -- N. B. Day Registered Linux user # 333228 @ http://counter.li.org N 30 1.602 W 90 4.070 2:35pm up 9 days 7:15, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.09 SuSE Linux 9.2 (i586)
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