Timothy Murphy wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Is all this a possible way of saving RPMs on a /common directory
>> served by NFS?
>>
> Perhaps you missed my reply to this, <hd26d3$rpl$1(a)ger.gmane.org>,
> indicating that I have been doing this and it works very well for me on
> FC11 and CentOS-5.[34] /var/cache/yum directories.
>
>> I suspect I may have misunderstood the basics of yum ...
>>
> If the post on shared cache isn't clear and you want to try it, I'll try
> to clarify. But it's really simple, just create a directory on a server,
> mount it rw on /var/cache/yum, and run update on one machine at a time.
> Any prm used on one machine is there for the others, and you never
> download a byte of data you don't need on *some* machine, so bandwidth is
> minimized.
Thanks for the response.
I'm away from home at the moment, so can't try what you suggest.
But I don't understand one point:
Isn't /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/ normally cleared after "yum
update"?
See the original post, which noted that /etc/yum.conf needs keepcache set to 1.
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