Laurent GUERBY wrote: > Hi, > > I have three machines at home (ADSL 512k) and I also maintain my mother > machine (far away, on 56k modem). I'd like to download packages > only once from my three home machines, and to be able to burn > a few CDs (or fill an external USB2 drive) with the updates when I visit > my mother. I'm using up2date and yum for now on fedora.redhat.com and > freshrpms.net. > > Is there a documented way to do what I want? May be mirror using wget, > tweaking /etc/yum.conf and /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources? > > I've tried to copy /var/cache/yum from one machine to another > but on the new machine yum dies. Copying /var/spool/up2date > does seem to keep up2date happy though. > > Thanks in advance, > > Laurent I recommend lftp for mirroring http repos. You may put lftp's mirror command into a small lftp script, which is run by cron or by hand: # [core] open http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub mirror -v fedora/linux/core/1 core/1 & Regards Dirk -- Dirk Engel Institut für Theoretische Physik 1 Tel (0711) 685-4986 Universität Stuttgart Fax (0711) 685-4909 http://www.theo1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
