Multiple yum - How?

[Alexandre de Abreu]

GianPiero Puccioni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have to set up ten similar machines with Fedora and I'd like to use
> yum for updates and stuff, as doing it independently on every machine is
> stupid I'd like to use one as "master" and and get the stuff from that
> one, but what is the best strategy? 
> 
> Configure the master as a yum server? For this I suppose I need a httpd
> server (or maybe FTP), and that would mean having ten copies of
> everything around.  Mount/umount the /var/cache/yum directory using
> NFS when I need to update? Or maybe, as the machines share a directory on
> a file server anyway, use a directory there and point all the yum 
> to use that?  As the NFS is set up to mount from the file server
> "squash_root" can this be a problem or the access can be "read
> only" (except for the master of course)?

Hi Gian,

Take a look at this article I've wrote for FedoraNEWS website:

"Creating a local yum repository"
http://fedoranews.org/alex/tutorial/yum/

Any problems, please send me.

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