On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> (ref:
> https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/redhat-list/2003-March/172226.html)
>
> There was a thread yesterday about using up2date with pre-downloaded rpms
> (very useful for poor 56k phone-modem users). However I tried all the
> suggestions given but it didn't work.
>
> Here's the problem:
>
> When I run up2date not connected to the internet, it complains about name
> resolution.

That's right.  up2date likes to compare your current rpm status with the
most recent updates.  That's it purpose.

> When I run up2date connected, I can't prevent up2date from dowloading the
> packages from the internet.

The ones that it is trying to download, are they previously downloaded and
do you have the -k parameter set?

Of course, you could also set --nodownload on the command line...

Ed

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