On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 20:14 +0000, macgyver wrote:> > > When I had two servers running Fedora2 and both my wife and I's > workstation, and my laptop all running FC2 - what I did was get one of > the servers to do an automatic update at say 02:00 - and do not delete > the resultant packages... > > The resultant packages were then NFS shared to the rest of the systems > as a background mount..... > > The result - when yum ran on the rest of the machines, if it found those > packages already on disk - it didn't re-download them - thus saving > downloading everything 5 times.. That sounds like an extremely easy solution for a localnet. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
