yum downloadonly

[Kam Leo]

On 7/20/07, Justin W <jlist at jdjlab.com> wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
> > On 7/20/07, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> >>
> >> I asked a while ago if there was any way
> >> of only downloading a package once
> >> and then installing it on several machine,
> >> and I was advised that the yum-downloadonly plugin
> >> would serve this purpose.
> >>
> >> I just got round to looking at this,
> >> and I don't really see how to set this up.
> >>
> >> What I would like is an option to yum, say localrepo,
> >> so that if I say "yum --localrepo update" then
> >>
> >> 1. yum will look first to see if the package it wants
> >> is already in the directory /common/RPMS/
> >> (specified in some config file),
> >> and install it from there if it is found; and
> >
> > You do not need the yum-downloadonly plugin. Edit /etc/yum.conf and
> > change "keepcache=0" to "keepcache=1". All the rpms that yum downloads
> > will remain in the /var/cache/yum directories (separate directory for
> > each repo) until you dispose of them (yum clean packages, rm xxx, mv
> > yyy, etc.).
> I've been keeping the cache, but now with so many updates, I've got a
> bunch of older versions which have newer packages also downloaded. Is
> there a utility which will cleanup the older packages and leave the
> newer ones? If I can find that, I sure I could then devise a way to
> combine yum, cron, "that" utility, rsync, createrepo, and the priority
> plugin for yum to download the minimal amount of stuff for multiple
> servers/desktops/virtual machines (right now I only have one, and this
> problem is one of a couple reasons why I haven't expanded yet).
> >
> >> 2. If it does not find the package locally
> >> it will download and install it,
> >> and save a copy in /common/RPMS .
> >>
> >> Is this already available, eg using yum localinstall ?
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Timothy Murphy
>

Try these links:
http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2007/01/howto-creating-your-own-yum-rpm.html
http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2007/01/howto-mirroring-yum-repositories-using.html