So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:20 +0200, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:49:32PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > * Related to the last, no simple caching software. The last I knew,
> > >   there was no RPM analog to the Debian apt-cacher. This caches deb
> > 
> > RPM doesn't need a specialist tool for this thankfully. Squid and similar
> > generic caching setups can handle it quite nicely. It is true we don't
> > have a package that does that setup in one go (or I've not found it
> > anyway).
> > 
> 
> I just nfs share /var/cache/yum across the machines and configure yum
> not to delete downloaded packages.
I am using bit more complicated, but very similar setup ;)

> The only thing I still need is a tool to cleanup the packages dirs from
> old package version (e.g. only keep the latest version).

You are looking for repomanage (from yum-utils; Check option -o).

Ralf