Yum on several machines

[Timothy Murphy]

Juerg Ritter wrote:

> I have never done something like this, but i was thinking about this
> issue too. I came up with the idea using a proxy server like squid which
> is caching the downloaded rpm's and rpm headers. I have never tried it
> to be honest, but this would probably work, what do you think? On this
> way, you don't have to set up a local mirror, only the packages which
> are really needed will be downloaded and cached.
> 
> What do you think?

I'm not familiar with squid, so can't offer an opinion.

Actually, I have a /common directory shared by NFS on all my machines,
so I'm trying that solution first.