On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:35 pm, N. B. Day wrote: > 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. hey Boudeaux why no updates Gator ate them and the tech too (some IT jobs are more hazardious than others) > > HTH
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