Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Is all this a possible way of saving RPMs on a /common directory >> served by NFS? >> > Perhaps you missed my reply to this, <hd26d3$rpl$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > indicating that I have been doing this and it works very well for me on > FC11 and CentOS-5.[34] /var/cache/yum directories. > >> I suspect I may have misunderstood the basics of yum ... >> > If the post on shared cache isn't clear and you want to try it, I'll try > to clarify. But it's really simple, just create a directory on a server, > mount it rw on /var/cache/yum, and run update on one machine at a time. > Any prm used on one machine is there for the others, and you never > download a byte of data you don't need on *some* machine, so bandwidth is > minimized. Thanks for the response. I'm away from home at the moment, so can't try what you suggest. But I don't understand one point: Isn't /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/ normally cleared after "yum update"? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
