Yum over Sneakernet

[Tracy Reed]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 06:24:07PM -0600, Todd Walton spake thusly:
> 1) Make a copy of a repository.  How I'd do that I'm still not quite
> sure.  I found instructions for rsyncing a repo, but rsync gave me an
> error.  I could squash the error, and I have 500 GB of USB disk
> available.

What is the error? I would recommend figuring out the error and
rsync'ing the repo to your USB disk and doing as I suggested before.

> 2) Just download a more current Live DVD and do a complete reinstall.

This depends on what you really want to achieve. If you have a backup
of any data you want to save a full reinstall is generally cleaner and
less error prone than an upgrade. I was under the impression that this
was an offline but important machine of some sort and you want wanted
to bring it up to date on security patches etc. in which case
reinstall would be overkill.

Either way would work just fine, up to you.

-- 
Tracy Reed
http://tracyreed.org
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