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I'm slowly learning FC4 on one of my computers and see that there's a long list of security patches for it.
Can anyone tell me, do I have to go all the way back to the first one and install each in sequence or can I just install the last one and get all of the patches (i.e., is each succeeding patch a roll up of all of the previous one?)?
What "security patches" are you talking about? I'm not aware of any separate "security patches" in Fedora Core. All changes are in the updates of packages. So if you update the package, it should have any security fixes. You can update all your packages with something like "yum update".
Is it possible to collect the required packages somewhere else...then use them to update FC4.
In my house I have 10Mbit connection....but some of my friends dont have such speed and i might try to download the updates for them??? How can we do that?? Is it possible for them to generate a list of files then it will be up-to me to download the files???
Distribution: CentOS 3.3-4, OpenBSD 3.3, Fedora Core 4, Ubuntu, Novell Open Enterprise Server
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On your fast computer, do "yum -y update" to download and install all of the updates. Then go into /var/spool/yum and find all of the rpm files that are updated. Copy them onto a USB harddrive, or burn them onto a cd and do rpm -Uvh *.rpm on the target system.
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