Haven't done this before, but this might work:

- do a fetch-all with pybombs
- burn the pybombs dir as-is to the dvd
- copy it to the air-gapped computers disk (make sure you have w
permissions there)
- ... then, all the packages should be listed as fetched and you can
install whatever.

M


On 29.04.2015 14:28, Richard Bell wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> Yes you're right that we can't use USB drives, but I should be able to
> do the same thing on a DVD. Can you explain the steps you would use to
> create the USB drive and I will do that on a DVD instead. This is the
> part I'm just not sure how to do.
> 
> v/r,
> Rich
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Martin Braun <martin.br...@ettus.com
> <mailto:martin.br...@ettus.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Richard,
> 
>     no solution here, but this is interesting because these kinds of
>     problems are one of the reasons why we're re-working PyBOMBS. Are USB
>     drives allowed? I guess if so, you could fetch-all on one machine,
>     update a USB drive, and then have PyBOMBS read repos from that.
> 
>     Of course, air-gapping becomes kind of pointless if you can install
>     anything from a USB drive.
> 
>     M
> 
>     On 29.04.2015 10:27, Richard Bell wrote:
>     > I originally installed GNU Radio on this computer when it was
>     networked
>     > via pybombs. Since then, the computer has become air gapped (no
>     internet
>     > connection allowed). I need to update the install to the latest
>     versions
>     > of UHD and GNU Radio. Two questions:
>     >
>     > 1) Is there a way that would allow me to use pybombs to update from a
>     > dvd? If so, how would I create this dvd and then point pybombs to it?
>     >
>     > 2) Should I forget the original pybombs install and start over with a
>     > dvd containing all files needed to install the latest version. If so,
>     > how do I make this dvd?
>     >
>     > v/r,
>     > Rich
>     >
>     >
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