yum downloadonly
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sun Jul 22 14:29:15 UTC 2007
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Thanks very much to you and the other responders.
> Having read all the suggestions, what I'm proposing is:
>
> 0. Set keepcache=1 in /etc/yum.conf on each machine .
>
> 1. Soft-link /var/cache/yum on each machine to /common/yum ,
> where /common is NFS-shared by all my computers.
>
> 2. Now on each machine run - perhaps daily -
> yum localupdate /common/yum/*.rpm
> yum update
>
> 3. Every week run "yum clean cache" on the machine carrying /common .
Actually, after mulling over the various suggestions,
I've adopted a completely minimal solution:
I'm just NFS-sharing /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/
among the various computers.
(I've actually linked this to a /common/ directory,
and am sharing that.)
Is there any catch in this?
There haven't actually been any updates since I put it in place,
so I can't be 100% sure it works.
But if it does, it seems the simplest solution.
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Timothy Murphy
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