Faster yum for multiple servers

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 27.01.2004 schrieb Al Sparks um 19:06:
> A couple of questions on yum.
> 
> When I ran
>    yum update
> 
> I would occasionally get errors like,
> ********
> grep-2.5.1-17.4.i386.rpm  100% |=========================|  52 kB    05:03     
> error: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: MD5 digest: BAD Expected(41f49a1430e2729628b3002893b9f634) !=
> (46fe019379b1917ed12daf1862e5d1de)
> grep-2.5.1-17.4.i386.rpm  100% |=========================| 169 kB    00:18   
> ********
> 
> I ended up running 
>    yum update
> about 3 times, before it finally downloaded all the rpm's and
> proceeded to install them all.

Again: use a mirror ->
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg03379.html

> Once I upgrade one server, is there a way to set it up so it serves
> its own updates?  That way subsequent updates on other servers don't
> take so long.
> 
> If not, can I copy over headers and rpm's from and to the correct
> place on a new server and then run "yum update" so all it has to do is
> upgrade w/o downloading?
>    === Al

You can setup your own yum repository. One possibility mentioned here ->
https://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2004-January/msg00428.html

Alexander


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