Timothy Murphy wrote: > I asked a while ago if there was any way > of only downloading a package once > and then installing it on several machine, > and I was advised that the yum-downloadonly plugin > would serve this purpose. > > I just got round to looking at this, > and I don't really see how to set this up. > > What I would like is an option to yum, say localrepo, > so that if I say "yum --localrepo update" then > > 1. yum will look first to see if the package it wants > is already in the directory /common/RPMS/ > (specified in some config file), > and install it from there if it is found; and > > 2. If it does not find the package locally > it will download and install it, > and save a copy in /common/RPMS . > > Is this already available, eg using yum localinstall ? > > yum localupdate *.rpm Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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