On Friday 05 January 2007 14:43, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > I'd like to do the following: Net-installing machine #1 gets the stuff > required for that install (only!) and caches it, from cache install > machines #2 .. #30. Now update machine #1, cache updates (so they can be > used to update #2 .. #30, or even for fresh installs of #31 .. #35). > If machine #20 needs some extra package, get and cache that one. If some > machine asks for a package, look if what is up to date and hand that over; > if not, get the last version. > > Sort of local-net /var/cache/yum (with a bit smarter handling ;-). Sure, > it'll need some smarts to figure out that a package is obsoleted by another > (version) to free space, but this might be handled by hand. Disk space is > inexpensive, international network access is limited and expensive here > (and it is probably much worse elsewhere). And it is not fun downloading > the same files 30 times, or mirroring 10 files that aren't used locally to > get the one you'll install 30 times. Er, how is this not possible with a sufficiently large squid caching proxy? -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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