I have a simliar problem, in which none of my redhat boxes (14 and growing) are not on the internet. So currently I download them one by one to my NT box and then write a CD and distribute them onto the the Red Hat machines. Since these machines are not on the Internet, they are not in the RHN database and therefor no update messages (like I get at home), though I get messages through bugtraq. The updates I cringed at are XFree86, Gnome, and KDE, the number and sizes of these packages makes a long download even at T1 speeds. Hopefully the management will notice this and allow me to attach a RH box to the T1 and then I can up2date with the option to save the rpms to a seperate directory. Its a task in itself to keep up with the patches, which up2date works very well only if you are attached to the internet. Maybe a periodic iso image of patches would help? Just don't know, so I also open to suggestions.
smbinyon -----Original Message----- From: daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: updates not over the web just an odd question here just recently i updated my 7.2 box with all the new rpm's redhat released on their server but then it occured to me: what if i was in brazil with a dialup or something? downloading 1 or 2 hundred megs is a bit of a strain on my only phone line what do people do in this case? _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
