can I use yum to download to a holding place and then update other machines with the dl files

[Barry Yu]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> Barry Yu wrote:
>
>> Charles Li wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I would like to know if I can configure yum to
>>> download updated to holding area and update other PCs
>>> with the downloaded files?  I have 3 PCs and they all have the save 
>>> software. Since 2 of them are at home, without highspeed
>>> connection, that would save me time.
>>>
>>> So, this is what I want to do:
>>> - use yum to download to a holding directory
>>> - use yum to update PCs from holding directory
>>>
>>> Is this possible?  If yes, how do I configure Yum to
>>> do it?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Charles Li
>>>
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>> yes it is possible, I am doing it at home now ;
>>
>> 1. Use wget with the options -nd --mirror to download.;
>> Using one machine to download and keep adding newly developed update 
>> rpm packages (Keep coming out every week sometime in 2 days) into a 
>> local folder, this folder is the master folder holding all the update 
>> rpm packages for any and other machines, except first time doing a 
>> full download, after that every time new update are available, wget 
>> will only download those you still don't have in your master folder. 
>> For detail use of wget, use google and enter the key word "wget 
>> manual" and you will  find it and look through it.
>>
>> 2. Use yum to update the system with the master folder that holding 
>> all the update rpm packages downloaded.
>> You will  find the how-To in Fedoranews.org "How to build a custom 
>> Yum Repository in FC3" by Richard flude under Contributing Articles 
>> from Fedora Community,
>> Yum will use your downloaded update rpm packages in automatic 
>> processing (It is good even at the first time you do the update with 
>> more than 700 rpm packages, that will take more than an hour, if you 
>> do it with up2date via Internet - I would imagin will take more than 
>> half date  to complete per machine!).
>>
>> 3. Update the other machine with the downloaded update rpm packages;
>> You have at lease 3 options;
>>
>> Burn those update rpm packages into cds and use these cds to update 
>> other machine as step 2 , but you have to keep adding new update rpm 
>> packages into it soon as new ones are available.
>>
>> Use rsync to synchronize other machine in a lan with the master fold 
>> which holding all the update rpm packages, this is what I am doing 
>> since I must do multiple backup data into other machine - a simple 
>> script will do . Except the first time doing a full sychronization 
>> (full back up actually), every next time will only synchronize the 
>> newly added packages. This is what I am doing as my update to all 
>> other machine with download rpm packages.
>>
>> Or you can use yum in a machine which needs update, and point to the 
>> machine (In same lan) where the folder is holding all latest update 
>> rpm, I haven't tried it, but I am sure this is workable.
>> Hope above will help.
>
>
> Do you think settign up the yum cache dir as a NFS share would work?
>
I don't know, never tried yet.