esxupdate –force –easy -r http://host.domain.com/build/esx/esx301 … epos.32039 update
If not outright stupid, it is a bit idiotic to do this on a production box. What you can do is point your yum.conf to the CentOS servers and download their updates for Redhat Enterprise Linux and update the packages since ESX is just a modified version of Redhat.
Here’s how you do it.
[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Base
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.8/os/$basearch/
#released updates
[update]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.8/updates/$basearch/]]>