On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 13:35, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: > Hi, > > I have to set up ten similar machines with Fedora and I'd like to use > yum for updates and stuff, as doing it independently on every machine is > stupid I'd like to use one as "master" and and get the stuff from that > one, but what is the best strategy? > > Configure the master as a yum server? For this I suppose I need a httpd > server (or maybe FTP), and that would mean having ten copies of > everything around. Mount/umount the /var/cache/yum directory using > NFS when I need to update? Or maybe, as the machines share a directory on > a file server anyway, use a directory there and point all the yum > to use that? As the NFS is set up to mount from the file server > "squash_root" can this be a problem or the access can be "read > only" (except for the master of course)? > > Which one? Personally I am using rsync to grab the Fedora Base/updates from mirror.ac.uk, and have a HTTPD server share that out for local use. I then configure all of the machines to use the local repository as apposed to the main ones. I have set up a cron.tab entry to run the rsync, so that when /etc/init.d/yum service is run it will have the latest updates for that day. If you want any more info/specifics, let me know. Doug
