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It is by now clear that a handful of persistent spammers have started using semiautomated attacks targeted specifically at our wiki ... one careless spammer even uploaded some of his scripts! As a result, I have switched the wiki to a mode where editors need to be explicitly authorized, manually, before they can edit. As a result, people will need to first create an account, and t...

...rk, and use rsync to transfer/update the packages onto the USB drive. 6. Bring USB drive home and dump contents into local repo. 7. Run yum to do the updates. I think this is how to do things in general terms, but I could use a good bit of help in coming up with some scripts to automate/semiautomate the process. I think #3 may be the hardest one to automate. Anyone doing this? Anyone good with rsync and yum, and care to give me a starting point, even if your try is untested? Console approach is fine (GUI OK too), but I am new to yum (moving from Mandriva), and have used rsync a few times s...