At 12:59 PM 1/21/01, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > Just mirror the Mandrake/updates/7.2 (or whatever the version you're using)
> > directory and rpm -Fvh * in cron and that's it!
>
>Omigawd! You are kidding right? How many packages are in Mandrake
>7.2? My "secure" box has only 106 packages -- with likely too much
>cruft on it already. So what percentage of the distro do I have
>installed (106 / # packages in 7.2)?
>
>Now download the entire updates directory when I actually only need a
>small percentage of them? Jeez, what makes it even worse is that at
>least half of them seem to be KDE updates.
Brian,
Wow! Only 106 packages. My development machine has over 500 packages and,
no, I don't know what they all are.
One strategy might be to create a script that uses the rpm list that "rpm
-qa" generates, trims the package names of version info, then uses rsync to
update a selective mirror site. At the very least, that would produce
something close to the proper set of packages needed and would
significantly cut down on disk usage. Given the downloaded packages, the
script could then be used to determine additional dependencies and get them
or notify you of their need.
David
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