Yum NFS mounted/shared cache directories?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 23:35 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 19:10 -0400, Dr. Diesel wrote:
> > Perhaps not a bug or maybe requires a feature request.  I'm attempting
> > to host my /var/cache/yum directory on a NFS to share with several
> > other machines.  I've tired doing with by simply changing the location
> > in yum.conf and also by creating a symbolic link to the directory with
> > no succes, yum just stops here with no error:
> 
>  What verison?
>  What does strace say yum is doing?
>  The sqlite documentation generally recommends against using NFS to
> store the DB, although yum doesn't rely on multiple processes updating
> the DB at once ... even so you might want to just have the packages
> dirs. on NFS but leave the top level local.
> 
>  We're hoping that something like yum-avahi will allow you to share data
> over the local network for Fedora 11, which is the "good" way to solve
> this problem IMO.
> 

intelligent mirror is another good way.

Relying on nfs + sqlite and worrying about the race conditions
w/multiple yum instances on multiple machines possibly writing to this
location is just going to end badly.

-sv