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

[Arthur Pemberton]

Barry Yu wrote:

> Charles Li wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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> yes it is possible, I am doing it at home now ;
>
> 1. Use wget with the options -nd --mirror to download.;
> Using one machine to download and keep adding newly developed update 
> rpm packages (Keep coming out every week sometime in 2 days) into a 
> local folder, this folder is the master folder holding all the update 
> rpm packages for any and other machines, except first time doing a 
> full download, after that every time new update are available, wget 
> will only download those you still don't have in your master folder. 
> For detail use of wget, use google and enter the key word "wget 
> manual" and you will  find it and look through it.
>
> 2. Use yum to update the system with the master folder that holding 
> all the update rpm packages downloaded.
> You will  find the how-To in Fedoranews.org "How to build a custom Yum 
> Repository in FC3" by Richard flude under Contributing Articles from 
> Fedora Community,
> Yum will use your downloaded update rpm packages in automatic 
> processing (It is good even at the first time you do the update with 
> more than 700 rpm packages, that will take more than an hour, if you 
> do it with up2date via Internet - I would imagin will take more than 
> half date  to complete per machine!).
>
> 3. Update the other machine with the downloaded update rpm packages;
> You have at lease 3 options;
>
> Burn those update rpm packages into cds and use these cds to update 
> other machine as step 2 , but you have to keep adding new update rpm 
> packages into it soon as new ones are available.
>
> Use rsync to synchronize other machine in a lan with the master fold 
> which holding all the update rpm packages, this is what I am doing 
> since I must do multiple backup data into other machine - a simple 
> script will do . Except the first time doing a full sychronization 
> (full back up actually), every next time will only synchronize the 
> newly added packages. This is what I am doing as my update to all 
> other machine with download rpm packages.
>
> Or you can use yum in a machine which needs update, and point to the 
> machine (In same lan) where the folder is holding all latest update 
> rpm, I haven't tried it, but I am sure this is workable.
> Hope above will help.

Do you think settign up the yum cache dir as a NFS share would work?