On 09/24/2009 10:14 AM, iskandhar2000 wrote:
> Hi Users...
>
> This is the issue, I have all the upgrades from SL-5.3 x86_64 plus the
> packages that I use from the repositories in a DVD set that i burned in
> another PC when I installed SL, this PC had net connection,  ( I simply
> fetched the /var/cache/yum folder in tared volumes...)
>
> Now I wish to install all the upgrades and the packages in another box
> which has no net connection...
>
> What sould be the commands to upgrade and install packages in this other
> box after untaring the whole of /var/cache/yum in the target machine
> without net connection...?
>
> BRGDS
>
> PS: Several packages in the repos are not installed due to priority
> checks.... How do I disable this...?   Is it advisable to do it, anyway...?
>
>
> Alex

Hi Alex,
If you take the /var/cache/yum directory from one machine and put it on 
another machine, it will work for a short period of time (12 hours or 
less).  And then after that, you machine is going to think that it's yum 
cache is old and want to refresh that cache.
But, what you can do, is pull all of the rpm's out of the /var/cache/yum 
area, and create your own local yum repository.  Then just point your 
yum at that.

   mkdir /var/tmp/mylocalyum
   cp /var/cache/yum/*/packages/*.rpm /var/tmp/mylocalyum/
   createrepo /var/tmp/mylocalyum/

Then create your yum repo file.  For this example I'll call it 
mylocal.repo  This file has to be in /etc/yum.repos.d/  Put the 
following in it

[mylocal]
name=My Local Yum Repo
baseurl=file:///var/tmp/mylocalyum/
enabled=1


As for keeping packages out that you don't want updated, just take them 
out before you do the createrepo.

Hope this helps
Troy
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