I have a copy of the Fedora CD installation files on my laptop, and
use that to install Fedora on my friends and families computers over
the network via HTTP. It works really great.

My dilemma is this: many of the packages on the CDs are not up to
date. I can always install the updates after getting the machine up
and running using up2date, apt or yum, but that's not as nice as
simply updating the packages being served to the machines and being
installed initially.

Is there a simple way to get the updates from Fedora and have them
overwrite the files in the distribution directory on my laptop?

Thanks!

--Hussam

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In comp.os.linux.setup Hussam Qasem <hqasem@gmail.com>:
> I have a copy of the Fedora CD installation files on my laptop, and
> use that to install Fedora on my friends and families computers over
> the network via HTTP. It works really great.

> My dilemma is this: many of the packages on the CDs are not up to
> date. I can always install the updates after getting the machine up
> and running using up2date, apt or yum, but that's not as nice as
> simply updating the packages being served to the machines and being
> installed initially.

> Is there a simple way to get the updates from Fedora and have them
> overwrite the files in the distribution directory on my laptop?

Dunno, but you should be able to install via kickstart, allowing
you to run "yum -y update" from the %post part of the ks.cfg.

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