Re: HOWTO update F17 machine with no internet access

2012-07-19 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi guys, I have tried, and used it several times. You have to install gnome-packagekit-extra - and you receive an small util that able to collect dependencies for an computer. The key is - that both computer must have this tiny util, to generate lists, and the diff will be the update in one single

Re: HOWTO update F17 machine with no internet access

2012-07-19 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Mark Haney wrote: > I'm sure this has been answered before, but I'm having trouble finding it. > Mainly due to the fact I'm not entirely sure what to search for. Anyway, > I've got a F17 system, which, for various reasons, does not have internet > access. It does

Re: HOWTO update F17 machine with no internet access

2012-07-19 Thread James Wilkinson
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Pick your favorite mirror, and rsync its updates directly, to a flash drive, > or something similar. Set enabled=0 in everything in /etc/yum.conf.d, then > just copy one of the configs and point it to the mount point of the flash > drive. Aaron Konstam asked: > What

Re: HOWTO update F17 machine with no internet access

2012-07-19 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 08:27 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Mark Haney writes: > > > I'm sure this has been answered before, but I'm having trouble finding it. > > > > Mainly due to the fact I'm not entirely sure what to search for. Anyway, > > I've got a F17 system, which, for various reas

Re: HOWTO update F17 machine with no internet access

2012-07-19 Thread Mark Haney
On 07/19/2012 08:27 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Mark Haney writes: Pick your favorite mirror, and rsync its updates directly, to a flash drive, or something similar. Set enabled=0 in everything in /etc/yum.conf.d, then just copy one of the configs and point it to the mount point of the flash dri

Re: HOWTO update F17 machine with no internet access

2012-07-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mark Haney writes: I'm sure this has been answered before, but I'm having trouble finding it. Mainly due to the fact I'm not entirely sure what to search for. Anyway, I've got a F17 system, which, for various reasons, does not have internet access. It does sit on a small wireless LAN, how

HOWTO update F17 machine with no internet access

2012-07-19 Thread Mark Haney
I'm sure this has been answered before, but I'm having trouble finding it. Mainly due to the fact I'm not entirely sure what to search for. Anyway, I've got a F17 system, which, for various reasons, does not have internet access. It does sit on a small wireless LAN, however. What I need is a