On Tuesday, May 03, 2005 @10:49 PM, I wrote:
On Tuesday, May 03, 2005 4:54 AM Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 01:37 am, Greg Wallace wrote:
Every time I have to recover my old 8.1 system from backup, I have to go back out to the web and pull down a large number of updates. Recently, I trashed it when I was trying to create a disaster recovery backup so I <big snip>
You should be able to run your current packages off to a CD or other location.
I don't do that but I do use the packages on one machine to update others....
Here's the script I use:
#!/bin/sh rsync -auvzr -e ssh <mastermachn>:/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/9.2/ /usr/local/update/i386/update/9.2/
(note, there are two lines to the above script... watchout for folding in
your email program)
The thing to note above are the directory structures. <mastermachn> is the machine that gets updated from SuSE sites directly. The /var/lib/YaST2........... structure is where the packages are kept (along with a lot of info about the updates)
By copying that structure and its files to another machine, using the /usr/local/update/...... structure, I can point YOU to the copied
structure using the "user defined" update site and can then update another
machine without any more downloading of packages.
Questions?
Bruce: Looks like my downloads are going to the following directory -- /var/lib/YaST2/you/discontinued/i386/update
There are 3 directories under that directory --
1) patches -- lots of files. Many have today's date. 2) rpm -- contains 3 directories, i586, noarch, and i686. i686 has one file, the other directories contain lots of files. Many of these files contain today's date. 3) scripts -- contains one file, rpmupdate-postscript.sh
I'm still trying to get the patches back to my machine and installed. Every time I try, at least one patch has a signature error and the update fails. This last time, only the adminguide failed to download. If at least one package fails to download, none of them are installed. I'm going to try tomorrow and leave that one package out (I think I can safely put everything else in and not have any dependency failures). Then, all of these should automatically install. Looks like that download put things into all of the above 3 named places. Do I need what's in all of these directories? The next question -- how would I install all of these patches manually, without running YOU. Would running the rpmupdate-postscript script in the scripts folder install them all?
Thanks, Greg Wallace
Looks like the timestamp on the ones in /patches are when I first connected to the SuSE site and the timestamps on the ones in the /rpm directory matches the time of the download. If a download is successful, does it then copy the packages over to patches? Greg Wallace