Fedora 7

[Horst H. von Brand]

Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

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> Have you looked at mrepo? http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/

Interesting, but it doesn't look exactly like what was asked...

I'd like to do the following: Net-installing machine #1 gets the stuff
required for that install (only!) and caches it, from cache install
machines #2 .. #30. Now update machine #1, cache updates (so they can be
used to update #2 .. #30, or even for fresh installs of #31 .. #35).
If machine #20 needs some extra package, get and cache that one. If some
machine asks for a package, look if what is up to date and hand that over;
if not, get the last version.

Sort of local-net /var/cache/yum (with a bit smarter handling ;-). Sure,
it'll need some smarts to figure out that a package is obsoleted by another
(version) to free space, but this might be handled by hand. Disk space is
inexpensive, international network access is limited and expensive here
(and it is probably much worse elsewhere). And it is not fun downloading
the same files 30 times, or mirroring 10 files that aren't used locally to
get the one you'll install 30 times.
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