On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:10:15AM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
>
> I do not do so deliberately -- but the mechanism I mentioned is the
> one that EL presents. The script you provide is not part of any
> "howto" that I can find ...
>
The script I posted has been posted on this list just last week,
in response to your question, if I remember right.
>
> A related question: is there a way to burn an update DVD ...
>
You still have computers with DVD drives? Either California
is so broke that you do not have any new computers,
or California is so rich that you can afford a DVD drive
in every new computer.
Anyhow, I am about to post the instructions for a bootable USB installer
for SL6.4 (I posted the SL6.1 long time ago, I have an unpublished SL6.3
and I need to make the SL6.4 installer).
K.O.
>
> that will
> contain the files that your script downloads and uses so that the
> update can be burned on a machine with decent network bandwidth
> (e.g., accessing the LambaRail or whatever the current name is for
> this research backbone) and then utilized locally without accessing
> any network? In other words, going to the repo list authorized for
> a machine -- how does one get just the updated (update) rpm (etc.)
> files that are needed and how does one organize these on the DVD
> image so that your script will use these from said DVD?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yasha
>
> On 04/11/2013 09:57 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> >Yasha - of all possibilities you always choose the most painful, without fail.
> >
> >I update SL6.x to SL6.4 using this script. Running the SL installer (anaconda) unnecessary pain.
> >
> >
> >#!/bin/sh
> >YES=-y
> >cat /etc/redhat-release
> >uname -a
> >/bin/ls -ltr /boot | grep vmli | tail -1
> >yum clean all
> >yum $YES --releasever=6.4 update sl-release
> >yum clean all
> >yum $YES update "yum*" "rpm*"
> >yum $YES update
> >
> >
> >K.O.
> >
> >
> >
> >On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 09:38:21AM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
> >>After updating my IA-32 image SL 6 laptop to SL 6.4 using the update
> >>pathway from the automatically displayed anaconda GUI using the
> >>approximately 4Gbyte update/install DVD, rebooting and using the
> >>system, the red "badge" (Update Applet 2.28.3) with a bang appeared
> >>on the upper panel. The claim is presented for 148 updates. I
> >>attempted to use the automatically displayed GUI updater that is
> >>invoked from the red badge icon. In addition to be exceptionally
> >>slow because of poor USA DSL bandwidth at my home, the following
> >>diagnostics appeared:
> >>
> >>Traceback (most recent call last):
> >> File "/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py", line 2798,
> >>in install_signature
> >> self.yumbase.getKeyForPackage(pkg, askcb = lambda x, y, z: True)
> >> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line
> >>4765, in getKeyForPackage
> >> result, errmsg = self.sigCheckPkg(po)
> >> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line
> >>2189, in sigCheckPkg
> >> sigresult = rpmUtils.miscutils.checkSig(ts, po.localPkg())
> >> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.py",
> >>line 67, in checkSig
> >> fdno = os.open(package, os.O_RDONLY)
> >>OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/yum/i386/6.4/adobe-linux-i386/packages/AdbeRdr9.5.4-1_i486linux_enu.rpm'
> >>
> >>
> >>could not add package update for lcms2-2.3-2.el6(i686)epel:
> >>lcms2-2.3-2.el6.i686
> >>
> >>I cancelled the update and will try again later.
> >>
> >>1. Does anyone know what is causing the above (recall that the DVD
> >>6.4 upgrade was successful)?
> >>
> >>2. As the on-line update is VERY slow for my situation, I attempted
> >>to let the process run overnight unattended. Is there anyway to do
> >>this automated install so that it will simply skip those packages
> >>that "fail" (as the above) without requiring root password
> >>authentication intervention, similar to the -y switch on fsck. I
> >>realize that such automation is not ideal, but it would be less
> >>total time to re-install from DVD in the event that the process
> >>resulted in a no-boot or highly unstable system.
> >>
> >>Thanks for any insight.
> >>
> >>Yasha Karant
> >
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