Creating a local RPM repository

[Bill Davidsen]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
>>> Is all this a possible way of saving RPMs on a /common directory
>>> served by NFS?
>>>
>> Perhaps you missed my reply to this, <hd26d3$rpl$1 at ger.gmane.org>,
>> indicating that I have been doing this and it works very well for me on
>> FC11 and CentOS-5.[34] /var/cache/yum directories.
>>
>>> I suspect I may have misunderstood the basics of yum ...
>>>
>> If the post on shared cache isn't clear and you want to try it, I'll try
>> to clarify. But it's really simple, just create a directory on a server,
>> mount it rw on /var/cache/yum, and run update on one machine at a time.
>> Any prm used on one machine is there for the others, and you never
>> download a byte of data you don't need on *some* machine, so bandwidth is
>> minimized.
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> I'm away from home at the moment, so can't try what you suggest.
> But I don't understand one point:
> Isn't /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/ normally cleared after "yum update"?
> 
See the original post, which noted that /etc/yum.conf needs keepcache set to 1.

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