On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 13:34:34 -0700 Geoffrey Leach <ge...@hughes.net> wrote:
> My internet service comes over a satellite, and with it a relatively > small monthly download allowance. Which motivates the following > question. > > Once I have installed a new disto and downloaded the RPMs that I use, > is there a procedure by which I could gather together everything that > I have added, so that I could transfer the files (RPMs, or whatever) > to a local system, without resorting to the internet? (Or, at least, > to a significant amount!) If the two systems are the same version of fedora (or even different versions if they use the same dnf layout), you can put keepcache=1 in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf to keep the rpms after they are installed. See the man page for dnf.conf for an explanation. Those rpms are kept in directories like /var/cache/dnf/fedora-[hash]/packages/, with a directory for each file in /etc/yum.repos.d. You can then copy them to the other machine's similar directory, and they will reside there until you decide to remove them. If the cache gets too full with the keepcache option, you can go into the directory and remove the packages individually, or you can run dnf clean packages to remove them from every cache. But, I have to wonder why you are doing this. Unless you are updating another machine, and want to save the bandwidth from happening twice, once the packages are installed, you should never need them again on the same machine. That's why the default for keepcache is 0, so that cleanup occurs whenever a successful update happens. This is a lot simpler than setting up a local repository. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
