[Server-devel] Offline update

[David Leeming]

Good, Martin

Is it possible to download the updates from a Windows machine? We want to
update a server which has the stable 0.6 version 7th Oct 2009 to benefit
from all the latest patches etc, and then create a master image to use with
a few others. 

For a while we don't have access to a direct Internet connection or a Linux
machine - only expensive (USD 25c per MB) hotel wireless subscriber systems.
I need to download any update rpms and transfer them to and run them
manually on the XS.

David Leeming

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langhoff at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, 17 July 2010 3:16 a.m.
To: David Leeming
Cc: XS Devel
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Offline update

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:41 PM, David Leeming
<david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to do an offline update of the XS (i.e. download updates
and
> then run them offline?)

Yes!

You can download all the RPMs, put them in a usb stick and then take
them to the target offline XS.

If you want to download the exact RPMs, take a similar XS that is
connected, and do

 yum [maybe --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing] update

and look at what it proposes to update, then run

  yumdownloader [maybe --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing] packagename

If you don't have yumdownloader, it's in the yum-utils package.

cheers,


m
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