yum enhancement request - save bandwidth

[cornel panceac]

that would certainly be a nice thing. also it would be nice to have a mirror
only of the required packages, not all, that is: if one workstation requires
one package and it's not downloaded yet, the update server would download it
and make it available to any other station requiring it ...

2007/2/2, Jerry Williams <jwilliam at xmission.com>:
>
> Most of the time I already have a mirror of the updates.
> And it seems like a waste of bandwidth to download things again.
>
> Would it be possible to add a line to yum to say look here first.
> And "here" could be either another directory that might be nfs mounted or
> a
> web site.  If you find the package then use the local copy if not then go
> and pull it down from whatever site.
>
> I am only talking about packages, not headers.
>
> Or if I am just doing a yum install and have a CD/DVD with the package on
> it
> and it would be nice to again get it local if possible.  Maybe even list
> multiple local places.  Like is it on a CD/DVD in the drive?  Nope is it
> on
> a local web site nope,  then get it off the web.
>
> I do want it to go to the web and find out what the current version is and
> if I have it great, it not go get it.
>
> If this is already done, please point me at the docs so that I can use it.
> Thanks!
>
> Jerry
>
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