Probably the optimal method of having access to those same files on the second pc is to setup a caching http proxy on the machine with internet access. Check out squid, there are redhat rpms for it. Yum plays nice with proxies, so if you tweak your cache settings right, you should never end up downloading anything more than once, but will have access to everything on both pcs. --erik Michael Stenner wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 07:11:20PM +0200, Peter Sheldon wrote: > >>Hello All > > > hello Peter > > >>Um ............. are newbie's welcome on this list ? :-) > > > Yes, definitely. > > >>Anyway, Yum, works nicely thanks. I have 1 pc connected with dial-up >>to the net RH8 and another also RH8 networked to it without net >>access. >> >>I see that when Yum is run then the rpm's are placed in >>/var/cache/yum. can my pc 2 use that as a yum archive? Do I have to >>have 2 config files on PC1? One configfile when acting as a client >>and another as a server? > > > Yikes. It's really not meant to work that way for a few reasons: > > 1) yum (and the server-side tool yum-arch) manage a bunch of meta-data > in addition to just he rpms. That won't be set up correctly for > PC1 to act like a server. > > 2) you won't hava all the rpms you need. Yum only downloads those > rpms that it needs. So if you try to install xemacs on PC2, but > that rpm hasn't been install recently on PC1, then the rpm won't be > available. > > I think you have two real options (with a sane amount of effort): > > a) mirror the whole yum repository on PC1 and run yum-arch. This will > take a lot of space and you'll probably download a bunch of > packages that you never use anywhere. > > b) set PC1 up so that you can connect THROUGH it to the internet with > PC1. This can be done with iptables, nat, and ip_forward. This > has the disadvantage that if you install xemacs on both machines, > you'll have to download it twice, which is a PITA via dialup. > > There are other tricks, but they're more complex. Anyone else have > any thoughts? > > -Michael > -- Erik S. LaBianca <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Developer / System Administrator, Interlink, Inc. Voice: (269) 473-3103 Fax: (269) 473-1190 http://www.totalcirculation.com
