[PLUG] how to get a copy of the red hat errata files?

[Bill]

I think that if you run up2date on your one machine it will save all the 
rpms it downloads in /var/spool/up2date, even after it installs them.  Of 
course to be sure you could copy all the rpms from var/spool/up2date to 
another directory before you let up2date do the install (come to think of 
it, there might be an up2date setting that controls whether the things 
get deleted).  The reason I'm 
not sure the rpms are saved after install is that all I have in its 
directory is a bunch of .hdr files (whatever they are), but I think I went 
and cleaned out the rpms myself to save space.  Anyway, make sure you copy 
the rpms somewhere else, then plug the laptop back into yer network and 
ftp or scp the things over to your other machines.

Bill

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Bruce Kingsland wrote:

> Gregg Morris's Log: StarDate 0418.1507:
> > >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Kingsland <brucek at kingkon.com> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >     > OK. That's handy. Except that I'd need to keep a local copy on
> >     > my laptop in order to "only download newer files", and I was
> >     > hoping to do some sort of filename/date compare from a list.
> > 
> > I'm coming into this a little late, but I can't help wondering why you
> > don't want to use "up2date."  If you just want to download the files,
> > you can configure it that way and run it from the command line.
> 
> Well, I haven't read the up2date docs, but I "presume" that it will
> keep my online systems current. The problem is that I only have 1
> online system, and it's my laptop, which I carry to a friends house
> twice a week to get access to the net; and the rest of the time it is
> attached to my home network of 4 more systems, all running different
> collections of tools, but all running rh7.2
> 
> So, it makes more sense to me to just get _all_ the updates, and then
> update the home systems 'offline'.
> 
> However, if you have different data...... I can be taught!
> 
> -bk
>