[23673] in Athena Bugs
Delaying an update and keeping rpms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Cavin)
Tue Aug 19 16:17:32 2003
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:51:05 -0400
From: Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
To: Athena Bugs list <bugs@mit.edu>, SIPB Linux Help <linux-help@mit.edu>
Hi,
I'd like to capture the changes made in an update and be able to duplicate
them in an off-line system, with the ability to replay these changes on a
second system.
To be specific, I have Linux Athena laptop that is currently running 9.1.27
and a home system connected via a slow dialup line that was installed as a
9.1.27 system when it was on campus and which is now running in
disconnected mode.
I'd like to keep these systems in sync and up to date, so I want to take
the updates on the laptop and keep all the RPMs so I can do the same
procedure on the home system.
I vaguely remember that the updates for a system with DISCONNECTABLE=true
try to work in a "safe" mode where the updates are copied locally before
they are actually installed.
Although this would certainly make my life easier for my home systems, it
would also be useful in other situations where a given computer does not
have full network access. (The nodes in a Beowulf cluster come to mind,
but there are probably other similar situations.)
Is there any reasonable way to do this?
I'm willing to hack update_ws (both the local version and a copy of the
version in /afs/athena/...) but I'd rather not hack rpm itself.
Thanks,
--Tom
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