have you tried simply making /var/cache/yum on all the computers point to
the same spot (via nfs or samba or whatever)...? Assuming you never run
yum clean I think this should work okay (except possibly for some headers
being redownloaded).
Cheers,
MaZe.
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, User Lists wrote:
> Yes, but one more question: with yum-arch I can not
> download rpm packages when client do the request,
> correct??
>
> I need this feature: when client request a package,
> server do the download automatically from selected
> mirror and then forward this package to the client,
> like apt-proxy does.
>
> With this option, I have only packages that I need on
> the yum server without doing full mirror from Internet
> servers ...
>
> --- "Foster, Mark" <Foster.M@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> escribi?:
> > Quick answer to get you going.
> > Install yum-arch.
> > Setup your partial mirror in a directory
> > /path/to/mirror.
> > Run yum-arch -v /path/to/mirror to regenerate the
> > headers.
> > You must provide access to via http or https. (Is
> > ftp an option? I don't know)
> > Put an entry in yum.conf on your clients that points
> > to your local mirror.
> > e.g.
> > [org-local1]
> > name=Organization Repository #1
> > baseurl=https://mirror.example.com/path/to/repo/
> >
> > run `yum list` and ensure your client sees the repo
> > and headers from org-local1
> > You get the idea?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > User Lists
> > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:05 PM
> > To: centos@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Centos] Packages on demmand
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have four servers (one with redhat 7.3, two with
> > CentOS 3.4 and one with CentOS 4 for testing). I
> > would like to do a partial package mirror with os,
> > updates, contrib branches and so on. Anybody knows
> > if exists any tool for redhat based distros, like
> > apt-proxy in debian world ( that donwloads packages
> > on demmand), that supports this feature??
> >
> > I see yam tool from dag repository, but it needs
> > that do a full mirror ... and I don?t have as much
> > disk space.
> >
> > Thank you for your
> >
> >
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