Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:01:42AM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 23:43, seth vidal wrote:
> > > - For people with more than one machine on their
> > > home network, easy GUI setup so that RPMs are
> > > downloaded only once, stored on one machine disk
> > > and other just have to pick-up things on the local network
> > > (may be with up2date option and minimal system-config-nfs ?)
> > 
> > I wish I even remotely understood this. You want the current
> > repositories to ALL be downloaded and dumped into some dir?
> 
> I run an update tool (let's say up2date) on machine 1,
> it figures out it needs to download a few headers,
> then downloads 50 Megabytes of RPMs, then install things.
> 
> I run the same update tool on machine 2, 
> it figures out it needs to download a few headers, 
> then downloads 50 Megabytes of RPMs, then install things.
> 
> => Replace all "download" in the second paragraph by
> look at machine 1 previously downloaded headers
> and RPMs and don't download anything from the net.

  you need to nfs mount a shared directory.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date, set keepAfterInstall to 1
and storageDir to that shared directory.
  GUI won't work because primarilly you need a shared space, and
except NFS that won't work well, and setting up an NFS space is
not a simple GUI click option. But it ain't hard for a sysadmin.

Daniel

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