On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 17:48 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I know this question has been asked, and answered, > many times before, but I cannot find a reference at the moment. > > I want to yum-update on several machines, > and I want to avoid repeatedly downloading the same packages. > So what I want when I run "yum update" on machine A > is for it to look for RPMs in a specified directory > (perhaps mounted through NFS on all machines) > and use these RPMs if they exist rather than downloading them. I am using an nfs-mounted /var/cache/yum, combined with keepcache=1 in /etc/yum.conf, and compatible /etc/yum.repos.d/*+/etc/yum.conf's on each machine, for exactly these reasons. The effect is a "package-cache", being populated by diverging demands of different machines. Works quite well as long as you don't run several "yum update"'s accessing this /var/cache/yum simultaneously, because yum seems to have problems in locking /var/cache/yum. Ralf
