John,
What I would recommend is having a second OpenFiler instance that mimics
your production. You could use a virtual machine instance for this (eg
VMWare, etc...). Then you can query what packages would need to be
installed to update the production OpenFiler.
You can manually download packages with the 'conary' tool, move them to
the production filer, and install them manually. It's a bit of a pain
to do it this way - but it will work. Here are a couple of exerpts from
my Wiki page notes on maintaining OpenFiler packages manually.
Download Trove Changeset (package) to Local Disk
You can also download a trove (package) to your local disk, then do a
manual install. You can do this with the changset <action> of the conary
command.
To download the kernel to local disk, you would type:
conary changeset kernel=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:devel /tmp/kernel.cs
or
conary changeset
kernel=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:devel//1//[EMAIL
PROTECTED]:devel/2.6.19.7-0.3.2-1[kernel.smp]
/tmp/kernel.ccs
This downloads the current kernel from conary.rpath.com, and saves it
locally to /tmp/kernel.ccs. You can install the downloaded changeset
file with the following command:
conary update /tmp/kernel.ccs
If you don't have another OpenFiler to use for the conary commands, you
can get an RPM package of the 'conary' tools to use on a non-OpenFiler
based system. I did this successfully on CentOS 4.4, CentOS 5, and
OpenSUSE 10.2 systems.
YUM Repository for Conary
If you want to install 'conary' on a system so you can download, query,
etc Conary packages, check the rPath:RPM wiki page, at:
* http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/rMake:RPM
Only a limited set of conary commands make sense or are sane to run on a
non-conary managed system. The biggest reason to use it on a non-conary
system is to query the remote repository, download changesets, etc...
Good Luck!
v/r
Shane
John Jolet wrote:
> I'm getting ready to go live with an openfiler running 2.2 and it's got
> to be in a semi-air-gapped network. Is there a way to retrieve updates
> FOR the filer and stage them on a server in that environment and then
> point the filer to that server for updates?
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