It might be a silly question.... but why not just use a HTTP
Proxy/Cache ... this will store packages for you. ;)
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 02:28:01 -0600 (CST), User Lists <clopmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, I have already thought about that.. But every
> host has different packages installed (except common
> pacakges like glibc, kernheaders, etc).....
>
> --- Maciej ?enczykowski <maze@xxxxxxx> escribi?:
> > 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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