On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 04:51, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > [/me scowls at the subject line] How about novice/student question. Rick and I are both student's of yum at the moment :D > > 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? Might have to resolve the same issues as apt-cache addressed. http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/apt-cache.8.html
