On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 08:03 +1100, David Timms wrote:
> Morgan Read wrote:
> > David Timms wrote:
> >> Morgan Read wrote:
> ....
> >> There are some tools to build a yum repo mirror in your local network.
> > Hmm again, was hoping to avoid mirroring a whole repo - most of which
> > probably isn't necessary (I've got two similar machines).
> Until recently, I had configured a master machine to yum -y
> --downloadonly update twice a day.
> Then set up a rsync -a masterip:/var/cache/yum/ /var/cache/yum/ to auto
> run about 15 minutes after the time chosen above.
> {this requires using an sshkey with no passphrase to allow it to happen
> unattended}. Or make an icon on the desktop that runs rsync {give
> password}, does the yum -y update.
>
> Actually I went further:
> - ftp anon share the master's /var/cache/yum {actually I pointed it to a
> different path all together}.
> - yum -y update
> - cp the repodata to be in the same relative location as fedora mirror's.
> - on clients - set an additional fedora-updates.repo baseurl as that
> master machine.
> - run yum -y update in the client.
That only works if all of your systems are in lockstep. You could also
setup reposync (from yum-utils) to do it.
-sv
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