Not really a Python question, but I thought some on this list may be able to answer.... so here goes:
I have several machines on which I must install CentOS. There are many updates to CentOS and it's very time consuming to do the updates over the network. I have a local copy of all of the updated rpms. Would it be reasonable to do something like this to upgrade them locally and more quickly than over the network??? updated_rpms = [list of updated rpms] for f in updated_rpms: try: os.popen("/bin/rpm --nodeps -U %s" %f) except Exception, e: print e Thanks, rbt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list