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/