If you are imaging servers over and over wouldn't it be easier to maintain a local repo and setup pxeboot with kickstart? On 5/24/07, Lorenzo <lorenzo@xxxxxx> wrote:
Matt Shields ha scritto: > I know up2date can be configured to save all RPMs it > installs/upgrades. Can yum be made to do the same. If so, have 1 > server connect to the mirrors, have it save all the rpms into a > directory, run createrepo every so often to update the directory, and > share out that directory with ftp or http so that your other servers > can download the packages. > > Or do like I do, have 1 server that you use for imaging all my servers > and mirror the CentOS repos, then I run Apache and have my local > servers connect to that local repo. You don't even have to mirror the > entire repo if you don't want. > > -matt > Since I'm on a testing stage, installing, upgrading, and re-installing several times with slightly different setups and so on, I think the easiest way would be to only configure one proxy line on yum.conf on each new installation than playing each time with the .repo files on /etc/yum.repos.d or moving around RPMs between systems... after all what I need is a proxy-cache which knows how to handle RPMs: am I wrong? Lorenzo _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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