can I use yum to download to a holding place and then update othermachines with the dl files

[James Kosin]

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Thomas Cameron wrote:

| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Li" <cli168 at yahoo.com>
| To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
| Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 10:35 AM
| Subject: can I use yum to download to a holding place and then
| update othermachines with the dl files
|
|
|> Hi,
|> I would like to know if I can configure yum to
|> download updated to holding area and update other PCs
|> with the downloaded files?
|> I have 3 PCs and they all have the save software.
|> Since 2 of them are at home, without highspeed
|> connection, that would save me time.
|>
|> So, this is what I want to do:
|> - use yum to download to a holding directory
|> - use yum to update PCs from holding directory
|>
|> Is this possible?  If yes, how do I configure Yum to
|> do it?
|>
|> Thanks,
|> Charles Li
|
|
| You can, but I wouldn't.  You would need to make sure that the
| machines at home have *exactly* the same packages installed that the
| one on the high speed network does.
|
| I wrote an article for Intel about keeping multiple machines up to
| date back in the Red Hat Linux 9 days.  There are some tips in there
| that you could easily use:
|
| http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/20575.htm
|
| Thomas

Don't need to do that anymore.
Up2date is fairly smart these days, and if you setup a directory [CD,
share, etc] and tell up2date that you want it to look in this
directory for packages before downloading, you can update any packages
that you have on your CD, share, etc.
A better thing would be to have a DVD burner handy and mirror a yum
server for the updates and burn them to DVD once in a while.

James

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