On Mon, 06 May 2013 10:21:10 -0400 James Antill <james-yum@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Frank Murphy <frankly3d@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > yum -C update > > Will this cause yum be used without > > writing all the metadata locally? > > -C basically says "operate from out of the cache", or in other > words "don't try to use the network". The only network activity would be a shared nfs cache. With all installed rpms on any box being downloaded with relevant (hostname -s).list as cronjob > > > Just install the downloaded rpms > > Which is the desired result in this case? > > If all the rpms are already download (Eg. via. a previous > --downloadonly operation) then, yeh this should work fine. Going this way, as the only box that needs to be on continually is the yum-lan-cache box. Thanks for the reply James. -- Regards, Frank - I check for new mail app. 20min www.frankly3d.com _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum