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Paul Howarth wrote:
| An NFS server for FC3 installs doesn't need any fancy options though and | the export can be done read-only. It also doesn't need any loopback | mounting or other extraction of the ISO contents, which makes it a bit | easier to set up and to use.
Sure. NFS isn't hard to get running, and makes for an easy install. I just took against it as a protocol after reading stuff like this
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/security.html
and don't want it around.
| On the other hand, if you do extract (or symlink to) the packages from | the loopback-mounted ISO images, and serve them out via HTTP, it takes | very little extra effort to set up a local yum repository using those | extracted packages, which is very handy if you have a bunch of machines | to maintain and occasionally need to install extra packages.
Clearly true: I didn't try to create a private yum repo yet but it is something I want to learn to do. In the meanwhile, in a pinch, the http server trick is a handy and functional trick to know which is why I mentioned it, not because it obsoletes all the other methods.
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