On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 16:53 -0200, Martin Marques wrote: > Craig White escribió: > > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 14:45 -0200, Martin Marques wrote: > >> macgyver escribió: > >>> 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..... > >> Has anybody tried yam? > >> > >> http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/yam/ > > ---- > > yam is now mrepo > > > > It's awesome > > Is there something that will just do proxy with cache and not mirror > sync? I mean, just download what you're installing or updating to get > cached in disk, not the whole repo. > > Something like a proxy. :-D ---- in essence, all you need is a web server, the 'createrepo' package (to create the repodata directory) and a customized local.repo file in yum.repos.d But in reality, after you install mrepo and configure (and it took, me a day or so to get everything that wasn't included on the DVD and all of 'updates' downloaded), the benefit is that it's always lightning quick to install/update because everything is local. It also becomes real easy to do a new install (via http). Craig
