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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Can I copy an RPM from one machine to another? Post 302382005 by veracity on Monday 21st of December 2009 06:12:16 PM
Old 12-21-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by pludi
You'd copy them the same way as any other file. But as soon as an RPM is installed, it's not needed anymore , not even for an upgrade. So most distributions regularly purge the cache for RPMs to save space, and only the repository management software needs to know where to get it again.

If you need the RPM itself, and didn't download it manually, check the installation media of your distribution.
OK, looks like this is the reason I cannot find the RPM anywhere and the cache is empty. I did not download it manually, I installed it from the repo via yum as mentioned in my OP.

So the answer to my question is: No, an RPM that was installed from the repo via yum on one machine cannot be copied to another machine. I need to download the RPM itself in order to copy it.

Thanks for the help, pludi.
 

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repo-rss

repo-rss(1)															       repo-rss(1)

NAME

       repo-rss - generates an RSS feed from one or more Yum repositories

SYNOPSIS

       repo-rss [options] repoid1 [repoid2...]

DESCRIPTION

       repo-rss is a program for generating RSS feeds for one or more Yum repositories.

GENERAL OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Help; display a help message and then quit.

       -f <file>
	      Specify the file to which the RSS will be written.  Default is repo-rss.xml.

       -l <link>
	      Specify the URL to the RSS feed.	Default is http://yum.baseurl.org/.

       -t <title>
	      Specify the title for the RSS feed.  Default is "RSS Repository - Recent Packages".

       -d <description>
	      Specify the description of the RSS feed.	Default is "Most recent packages in Repositories".

       -r <days>
	      Specify the number of days to consider most recent.  Default is 3.

       --tempcache
	      Enable the use of a temporary directory for the yum cache.  This is enabled by default for non-root users.

EXAMPLES

       Generate an RSS for the updates-released repository and save it as updates-release.xml:
	      repo-rss -f updates-released.xml updates-released

FILES

       As repo-rss uses YUM libraries for retrieving all the information, it relies on YUM configuration for its default values like which reposi-
       tories to use. Consult YUM documentation for details:

       /etc/yum.conf
       /etc/yum/repos.d/
       /var/cache/yum/

SEE ALSO

       yum.conf (5)
       http://yum.baseurl.org/

AUTHORS

       See the Authors file included with this program.

BUGS

       There are of course no bugs, but should you find any, you should first consult the FAQ section on  http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq  and	if
       unsuccessful  in  finding a resolution contact the mailing list: yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org.  To file a bug use http://bugzilla.redhat.com
       for Fedora/RHEL/Centos related bugs and http://yum.baseurl.org/report for all other bugs.

Seth Vidal							       2005							       repo-rss(1)
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