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Is it possible to make 1 IBMi (for example Development LPAR where the updates will be tested or YUM installation will be done by connecting to the internet) system as a key system where the update will be installed and tested. Upon successful testing in that system, this needs to be transferred to the other systems in the same network which are not connected to the internet. All the YUM install and Updates should come only from this system to the other systems in the network. If so, can you please let me know the commands and process to do the same.

Hope my question is clear.

Regards, Praveen.

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One possible way is to:

  1. Create on one machine (RHEL) local repos
  2. Replicate desired RHEL repos from RedHat
  3. Point other machines to point these repos (in machine from point 1)

and the process will be:

  • update repos in repo machine
  • update test machine
  • do tests and confirm all is OK
  • update rest of the machines

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The canonical RedHat way is detailed in this solution.

The process is as follows:

  1. Ensure you have one internet connected system.
  2. Copy RPM database from disconnected system (via USB or network copy scp/sftp) to the connected system in an empty directory
  3. Perform a "download only" yum fetch of the updated RPMs based on the database state
  4. Copy the downloaded RPMs back to the disconnected system and install them with a yum/dnf local install
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