Hi guys, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I have 3 laptops. >> Is it possible to avoid downloading update rpm's 3 times? >> What I would like is for yum to look in /common/RPMs first, >> and only to look in the repository if it didn't find the rpm there. > > I'm looking to do something similar. I have a random bunch of amd64 > and x86 machines I'm taking care of. I would be nice to not download > all the RPM's several times. > > cd /var/cache > mv yum yum-dist > ln -s /common/yum yum > > Note, its isn't quite the directory structure you wanted, but should > be good enough. Assuming you have /common NFS mounted on all > machines, you will have the the machines share both the yum RPM's and > headers. > yum has a separate downloadonly plugin. apprich@elmstreet ~ $ rpm -qa | grep -i download yum-downloadonly-1.0.3-1.fc6 This should be what you two are looking for. Alex -- Vorstand/Board of Management: Dr. Bernd Finkbeiner, Dr. Florian Geyer, Dr. Roland Niemeier, Dr. Arno Steitz, Dr. Ingrid Zech Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/ Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Prof. Dr. Hanns Ruder Sitz/Registered Office: Tuebingen Registergericht/Registration Court: Stuttgart Registernummer/Commercial Register No.: HRB 382196
