On 03/02/2016 09:12 AM, Howard, Chris wrote:
> Can someone point me to a good cookbook for doing offline updates?
>
> My fuzzy understanding is that I would build an internet-accessible
> SL system, then periodically create my own repository
> and from that cook a DVD and take it to the non-internet-accessible machine
> and run Yum against it.
>
> I need help filling in the steps.
>
> Chris
>

You've got the right steps.  Using rsync is probably the easiest way to 
mirror a repo.  If I recall, examples are on the SL website, and I think 
Nico has posted links to the tools he has written as well.

Once you have the repo mirrored, you can burn it to DVD or copy to USB 
drive, etc.

On the offline machine, you need to edit or create a new file in 
/etc/yum.repos.d/.  It is probably easiest to copy an existing one if 
creating a separate, new repo.  Give the repo an alias in the [] and set 
the baseurl=file://path/to/repo/.  This is the directory containing the 
'repodata' directory.  If you have enabled=1, it will catch it with 
standard yum.  Otherwise you will need to pass 
--enablerepo=alias-you-used to yum with your commands.