Optimizing Updates

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:44:35 -0600, Doug Coats wrote:

> I have two FC1 and two FC2 servers(I will update to FC3 when time permits)
> on the same network interacting with each other providing services
> internally and externally.  When I have to update them I end up downloading
> the same files - wasting bandwidth and time.
> 
> How would I go about downloading all of the files for FC1 and FC2 to one of
> my servers and then making those updates available for up2date for the other
> 3?

Mirror them with lftp, wget, rsync, your favourite mirroring tool.
Then set up a local Yum repository with yum-arch (and in case of FC3,
createrepo). Point up2date to that repository.

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