Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Bernabe
Hi all, Many thanks in advance. We are investigating Fedora Core right now and one of the concerns is that the FC system will not be connected (or allowed to connect to the internet). All updates will have to be done offline. Is there a central place to check for updates to download for of

Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Bernabe
Hi all, Many thanks in advance. We are investigating Fedora Core right now and one of the concerns is that the FC system will not be connected (or allowed to connect to the internet). All updates will have to be done offline. Is there a central place to check for updates to download for off

Re: Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:10 +0800, Robert Bernabe wrote: > Hi all, > Many thanks in advance. We are investigating Fedora Core right now > and one of the concerns is that the FC system will not be connected (or > allowed to connect to the internet). All updates will have to be done > offline

Re: Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Bernabe
sorry..i changed the subject and I thought that would be enough to change the thread...didn't know an entirely new email had to be done...will resend...sorry..really didn't know that the thread would be picked up even when the subject is changed... Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-1

Re: Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-15 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Robert Bernabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20080716 07:58]: > Hi all, > Many thanks in advance. We are investigating Fedora Core right now > and one of the concerns is that the FC system will not be connected (or > allowed to connect to the internet). All updates will have to be done > offline.

Re: Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 13:57 +0800, Robert Bernabe wrote: > sorry..i changed the subject and I thought that would be enough to > change the thread...didn't know an entirely new email had to be > done...will resend...sorry..really didn't know that the thread would be > picked up even when the subj

Re: Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-16 Thread stan
Robert Bernabe wrote: Hi all, Many thanks in advance. We are investigating Fedora Core right now and one of the concerns is that the FC system will not be connected (or allowed to connect to the internet). All updates will have to be done offline. Is there a central place to check for updat

Re: Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-16 Thread Robert M. Bernabe
I haven't used rsync and perhaps it does this automatically, but you can also use wget with a list of packages that you have installed, set to only update files that have changed. Point it to a specific mirror that you know is fast and run it every night. You could then burn the resulting

Re: Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-16 Thread Robert M. Bernabe
* Robert Bernabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20080716 07:58]: Hi all, Many thanks in advance. We are investigating Fedora Core right now and one of the concerns is that the FC system will not be connected (or allowed to connect to the internet). All updates will have to be done offline. Is there a

Re: Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-17 Thread Rance Hall
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:49 AM, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could just set up two identical machines, one on the internet, one off. > Set up yum to cache the packages on the machine connected to the internet. > Use the cache to burn a DVD. The packages are all signed with a redhat ke

Re: Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-18 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 13:57 +0800, Robert Bernabe wrote: > sorry..i changed the subject and I thought that would be enough to > change the thread...didn't know an entirely new email had to be > done...will resend...sorry..really didn't know that the thread would be > picked up even when the subj

Re: Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:49:09 -0700, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't used rsync and perhaps it does this automatically, but you can > also use wget with a list of packages that you have installed, set to > only update files that have changed. Point it to a specific mirror that