2009/10/25 Gordon Messmer yinyang@eburg.com:
On 10/23/2009 06:10 PM, Jonathan Moore wrote:
What I was really looking for was a little more detail on exactly what I *must* have from the mirror to successfully upgrade.
If you want to download the minimum number of packages, the easiest answer is: use a proxy server.
export http_proxy=http://proxy.foo.com:8888 yum upgrade
I'm on the same situation and I use IntelligentMirror and squid to cache all the rpm packages regardless of the mirror. Also I set up the mirror line on the /etc/yum.conf One word of warning if you want to go to the same route: you have to setup 2 different mirrors for x86_64 and i386 arch., because there are i386 packages built for the x86_64 platform that have the same name but different checksum/content than the one for i386.
HTH Lorenzo