On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 14:46, Jeff Smith wrote: > [...] > So when I learned about Yum and started reading, I thought "There is a > God. And yes, he loves me." > > Then I started reading the How To. Which howto? > First step for me should be "get my system up to date". If I understand > things correctly, I can just run something like "yum update" and yum > will use its default repos (the ones set up, maintained and supported by > OTHER people) to get me fixed up. Yes > My first question is: Is this kosher? I don't want to wear out my > welcome on these default sites. Yes > My second question is: If I want to put RH9 on all 5 of my computers > here at home, would it still be kosher to rely on those default sites > for each, or am I crossing the bounds of good taste? Yes -- though you will be downloading the same rpms 5 times. Better to have all machines share the download directory (/var/cache/yum/*/packages). But if you want to kick things off overnight and don't have time to learn how to get 5 machines sharing a network drive (it isn't hard, relatively, but...), then there's no problem. For me, I have one NFS directory all the machines can mount, and symlinked /var/cache/yum/*/packages and /var/cache/yum/*/headers to that directory. I make sure one machine does a yum check-update and yum upgrade before all the others, so there is only one writer to that directory (practically speaking, though there is a danger). However what you should do in either case is find the closest mirror to you. Look at the list of mirrors posted on the Fedora site.
