Re: Minimizing downloads for multiple dnf system-upgrades

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Sam Varshavchik  wrote:
> I have a bunch of x86-64 machines on my LAN.
>
> It seems to be a major waste of time to have each one of them plow through
> and download all F24 packages.
>
> I suppose I can poke around and find where the first one ends up downloading
> all the packages to, before the install, and then rsyncing the whole thing
> over to the next box.
>
> But I was wondering if there was a less hacky way to do this.

From "man dnf.plugin.system-upgrade":

--datadir=DIRECTORY
Save downloaded packages to DIRECTORY. DIRECTORY must already exist.
This directory must be mounted automatically by the system or the
upgrade will not work. The default is /var/lib/dnf/system-update.