[/me scowls at the subject line] On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 05:37, Rick Thomas wrote: > My first question is (again) timing: The size of any particular > night's download is unpredictable. If there are alot of updated > headers and rpms to download, and the "leading" machine isn't > finished downloading when one of the "trailing" machines starts up, > then the trailing machine can get into trouble by not having a full > deck to play with. I'd be more inclined to push all the machines into accessing via a caching proxy - hmm is yum (or rather its access layer) proxy aware? -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]