Re: Sharing yum between several machines

[Jonathan Underwood]

2009/2/28 Timothy Murphy <gayleard(a)eircom.net&gt;:
>  Basically, I would like a system where yum looks first
>  in a /common/yum/ directory NFS-mounted on several machines,
>  and if it does not find what it is looking for
>  then it goes to a mirror as before,
>  and adds what it finds to /common/yum/ as well as installing it
>  on the machine in question.
>
>  Does yum have such a facility?
>  I googled for "yum several machines" but all the solutions suggested,
>  eg setting up a local mirror, seemed to me excessive for my purposes.
>  
There's recently been an article on LWN about just this:

http://lwn.net/Articles/318658/

Be sure to read the comments as well.

J.

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