On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 23:35 -0400, James Antill wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 19:10 -0400, Dr. Diesel wrote: > > Perhaps not a bug or maybe requires a feature request. I'm attempting > > to host my /var/cache/yum directory on a NFS to share with several > > other machines. I've tired doing with by simply changing the location > > in yum.conf and also by creating a symbolic link to the directory with > > no succes, yum just stops here with no error: > > What verison? > What does strace say yum is doing? > The sqlite documentation generally recommends against using NFS to > store the DB, although yum doesn't rely on multiple processes updating > the DB at once ... even so you might want to just have the packages > dirs. on NFS but leave the top level local. > > We're hoping that something like yum-avahi will allow you to share data > over the local network for Fedora 11, which is the "good" way to solve > this problem IMO. > intelligent mirror is another good way. Relying on nfs + sqlite and worrying about the race conditions w/multiple yum instances on multiple machines possibly writing to this location is just going to end badly. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
