On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:54:23PM +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 18:26 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:34:15AM +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > > > > > I can't help but wonder whether a useful feature on yum wouldn't be to > > > have an option for one of the boxed in the local network to become a > > > 'repo' of sorts. > > > > It sounds to me that you would get really all what you desire > > basically "for free" by NFS mounting 'packages' subdirectories of > > /var/yum/cache/* from a common location and while configuring yum on > > machines using that with "keepcache=1". Metadata will remain > > "private" on each machine. You can also use 'autofs' with a timeout > > to perform mountings on demand. > > For starters, hands up everyone with more than one Fedora install (of > the same variety) in-house. > > What I'm suggesting is something I've thought yum should do for some > time. Have you heard of InstantMirror [1] and IntelligentMirror [2]? [1] https://fedorahosted.org/InstantMirror/wiki [2] https://fedorahosted.org/intelligentmirror/ -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
