RPM's

[Jason Stephenson]

Derek Martin wrote:
> In the case of Red Hat, I think the best thing to do is simply go to
> their FTP site (or a fast mirror), and download all the files in the
> updates tree, and apply them using something like:
[Snippage]
> For Red Hat 7.2, the URL for the updates tree (for intel systems) is:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/i386
> 
> Note that the last 4 directories fit the pattern:
> 
>   <RH release>/<language>/os/<architecture>
> 

I get them like this:

wget -m ftp://updates.redhat.com/<release>/en/os/

This gets all the latest updates for a particular release for all 
architectures. It takes a little longer to download and a bit more disk 
space to store, but you've got everything.

For the 7.2 release it would look like:

wget -m ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/