Timothy Murphy wrote: > Thanks very much to you and the other responders. > Having read all the suggestions, what I'm proposing is: > > 0. Set keepcache=1 in /etc/yum.conf on each machine . > > 1. Soft-link /var/cache/yum on each machine to /common/yum , > where /common is NFS-shared by all my computers. > > 2. Now on each machine run - perhaps daily - > yum localupdate /common/yum/*.rpm > yum update > > 3. Every week run "yum clean cache" on the machine carrying /common . Actually, after mulling over the various suggestions, I've adopted a completely minimal solution: I'm just NFS-sharing /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/ among the various computers. (I've actually linked this to a /common/ directory, and am sharing that.) Is there any catch in this? There haven't actually been any updates since I put it in place, so I can't be 100% sure it works. But if it does, it seems the simplest solution. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
