On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 19:01 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>> >> Concretely, I want yum to look first in /var/cache/yum/updates on my
>> >> laptop, then in alfred:/var/cache/yum/updates on a local machine,
>> >> and then in the remote repository.
>> >>
>> >> What exactly can I put in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
>> >> to implement this?
>> >
>> > yum install yum-plugin-priorities
>>
>> Thanks.
>> I've installed that, but haven't worked out
>> how to use it to make yum look on my local network ...
>
> yum doesn't know anything about "looking on your local network". You
> still have to set up a repo and point to it.
In that case, I'm not clear how yum-plugin-priorities would help.
If you set up a local repo (i.e. a repo on your some other machine on
your LAN) then you can give it a higher priority than repos farther
afield.
I see that there is a yum-downloadonly package,
which I just installed.
This adds an option --downloadonly.
I assume that you can then later run "yum update",
and it will install or update the packages that were downloaded,
as well as any other new ones.
If that is so, then it seems to imply that yum looks first
in /var/cache/yum/ to see if required packages are already downloaded.
If it finds them there then it uses them;
otherwise it downloads them from a remote repository.
It doesn't look just at the package files but at the package database,
but essentially that's what's happening.
That being so, my question is: why not allow yum to look at
what yum has saved on another computer?
Because yum only knows how to talk to repos, which have a specific
layout (i.e. they aren't simply a yum cache directory). If the other
computer doesn't have its stuff organized as a repo, how is yum going to
know what's there? Note that it also has to run a transport demon that
yum understands, i.e. http or ftp.
I notice that after installing the yum-downloadonly package,
there is another new option --downloaddir=DLDIR
which seems to allow RPMs (and other files in /var/cache/yum/ ?)
to be installed in a specified directory.
It's not clear to me if yum will remember this new directory
if I use both these options --downloadonly and --downloaddir=OLDIR ?
Or will I have to specify --downloaddir again when updating?
Is all this a possible way of saving RPMs on a /common directory
served by NFS?
What you mean is to have your yum cache directory mounted from an NFS
server? In principle yes, but I'm not sure about locking issues.
I suspect I may have misunderstood the basics of yum ...
I suspect you may :-)
poc