Downloaded updates from FC2

[Giulio Sorrentino]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 04:56:40PM -0400, linux r wrote:
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>>On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:27:44 +0200, Alexander Dalloz
>><alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>>Why don't you just write a simple shell script(s) that update all the
>>boxes with yum and runs at differrent times.  Set it up with cron and
>>stagger the times if you want.  No need to get into the repository
>>business unless you really have to.
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>>.02,
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>>-- 
>>Marc
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>It is a matter of download speed from a local machine versus a remote
>mirror. We update 60 machines so the time difference would be
>significant.
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If in all machines are installed the SAME packets you simply need to 
update a machine an then make a local yum repository.
If the machines are differently configured you can mirror the update 
server locally.