On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 10:26 -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > I seem to remember this being addressed before, but I can't find the > howto anywhere. > > I've got a friend heading to another country with VERY limited > bandwidth. He'd like me to update the 4.4 DVD to include all of the > updated RPMS from updated. > > Where can I find the scripts to update the meta data on the RPMS and > create a new bootable DVD? Sounds like a good candidate for a CentOS Wiki page if someone can document a clean way to do this. The sipX kickstart may get you there but is a bit confusing for this purpose. [A related issue is creating a DVD from CD images. There's a blank page on the Wiki but no helpful content.] A work-around that might be a lot less work would be to just create a CD/DVD (currently about 1.1 GB for i386) containing all the updates - e.g. for the i386 updates, the top level of the DVD should have the contents of the updates/i386 directory: headers repodata RPMS With k3b one can create this DVD quite easily by selecting "New Data DVD Project", navigating to a previously-downloaded copy (or local mirror) of the updates for the desired arch, dragging the 3 directories to the DVD window, and selecting "Burn". Can just install from the original DVD then reboot, mount the update DVD and do # yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c4-media update It would later be possible to mail your friend new DVDs when enough updates, or important enough updates, come out to justify the postage. Phil