Dňa Wednesday 26 September 2007 12:06:49 Miquel A. Noguera ste napísal:
> El Miércoles, 26 de Septiembre de 2007 10:36:27 Stanislav Visnovsky
escribió:
> > > In 10,3 zypper is so good that we will only need apt/smart in few
> > > occasions, and probably in 11.0 we will be able to forget them
> > > definitively
> > >
> > > :-)
> >
> > In which occasions?
>
> occasion 1)
> ===========
>
> We need to download -only download- a list of packages and keep it for any
> posterior use, for example:
>
> - download updates every night to update our local update server
> - make a dvd update for pc's with no internet acces (great!)
>
> To do so, first, I get a list with all necessary rpm's in every box I
> maintain:
>
> rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name} \n" | grep -v gpg-pubkey | sort >
> pc_01.list
>
> with those lists, every night my server's cron downloads all updates that
> afect me:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get reinstall -dy $(cat pc_01.list pc_02.list ... pc_NN.list)
>
> and it updates my local repo too:
>
> rm /srv/ftp/repo/RPMS.last/*
> cp /var/cache/apt/*.rpm /srv/ftp/repo/RPMS.last
> genbasedir /srv/ftp/repo/
>
> When I need, I can:
>
> - Test new updates in a vmware machine "without wait for download" (*)
> - Apply it fastly (*) to my 5 local pc's, if everthing is ok.
> - I can burn a dvd to update my home's pc, where I have no internet
> conetion. - Perform fastly a new updated fresh install
> - Retain versions of packages to prevent broken updrades.
>
> (*) 11Mb/s instead 106Kb/s means about 100 times faster.
So, you basically create your own mirror using download-only functionality.
Correct?
If so, do you need just the download-only, or also some other functionality?
Stano
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