"nathan r. hruby" <nhruby@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Harvey J. Stein wrote: > > > With up2date, I was able to easily set it up so that I > > didn't have to download things more than once. I did this by NFS > > mounting /var/spool/up2date on the 2nd machine. I would update the > > 1st machine with up2date configured to not delete the downloaded RPMs. > > Then I'd update the 2nd machine, which would see the RPMs in the NFS > > mounted /var/spool/up2date, so it wouldn't download them again. > > > > This seems like a recipe for trouble. This works fine with up2date because it doesn't store machine specific stuff in /var/spool/up2date. I understand this won't work with yum because yum does put machine specific stuff in the same dir that it downloads the RPMs to. > If you want to only download updates once, I'd suggest just running > a mirror script to monitor an updates directory somplace and running > yum-arch on that, and adding it to your local yum.conf's You can > still NFS mount the directory you're mirroring and use a file:// url > for baseurl in yum.conf. That's an idea. The only thing is that this will download more than I need, mirroring everything in the update directory instead of just pulling down updates for packages I have installed. I guess I could only mirror the things I need, but that'd effectively be doing yum check-update | xargs wget ; yum-arch ; yum update, in which case, why not just tweak yum a little so that it stores downloaded RPMs in a way that's compatible with yum-arch, or at least so that the cache can be shared? > > The other issue is speed of updates. up2date shows me that > > rsync-2.5.7-0.9 is now available, but yum isn't pulling it down. > > yum-arch is different from whatever mirroring process is used at > individual sites. Duke seems to run yum one a day, as do I except > we only remirror once a day to the changes are always reflected. > Using my suggestion from above, this would never be an issue for > you, as you could simply run yum-arch on the mirrored directory > after every update. Yes. Does anyone know of any public yum servers which run yum-arch immediately after the mirror process runs? Thanks, -- Harvey J. Stein hjstein@xxxxxxxxx
