- I am running Centos 4.3 x86_64 on a machine at home, without broadband
access. I have dial-up access, but that doesn't work very well for something like "yum update", so I am still running 4.3 as issued on the CDs. 2. I have high speed access at work, and I have a USB drive to move files from work to home.
I'd suggest running yum update answering no, then getting the packages that it lists at work, and copying them into the appriopriate directories on your home machine (/var/cache/yum/[repo]/package if I'm not mistaken). You could probably write a quick sed script to parse the yum output and change it into urls to get at work. Once you've copied the packages you just rerun yum update, this time with a 'y' (and hope there were no extra updates in the mean-time). This if by no means perfect, but it'll get 'most' of the data from your work machines (you'll still be pulling the index and headers files at home).
If you're more desperate: than get a big removable USB/whatever (the current update set for centos 4.3 i386 or x86_64 is approximately 640MB). Stick it in to your work computer, rsync the centos update directory onto it [I'm including the script I use for syncing centos, but it syncs _a lot_ more than just the updates - you'd probably want to remove the entire dag-specific part, and add more filters to limit yourself to updates only (or even just change the base path)]. Once that's done (the first time will take looong), unmount it, take it home, configure yum at home to use the mountpoint from your USB as the update repo (/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo or something like that) and run yum update - voila, the repo's local.
Cheers, MaZe.