The reasonable thing would be to use "yum".
> Not really a Python question, but I thought some on this list may be
> able to answer.... so here goes:
>
> I have several machines on which I must install CentOS. There are many
> updates to CentOS and it's very time consuming to do the updates over
> the network. I have a local copy of all of the updated rpms. Would it be
> reasonable to do something like this to upgrade them locally and more
> quickly than over the network???
>
> updated_rpms = [list of updated rpms]
>
> for f in updated_rpms:
>
> try:
> os.popen("/bin/rpm --nodeps -U %s" %f)
>
> except Exception, e:
> print e
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> rbt
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