[nzlug] apt-proxy like thing for yum

[Michal Ludvig]

Hi Nevyn,

Thanks, I have found this type of hint as well. I'm already running it 
in a simpler way - R/W export /var/cache/yum on the server and mount it 
on all other machines in fstab. No automount, no changes to yum.conf. 
I'm still a bit worried about concurrent access to the repository, will see.

Michal

Nevyn wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> I trawled through a message board and found this solution - seems a
> tad hackerish (is that even a word) but the person who was going to
> try it came back with a "you're a damn legend" type of response.
> 
> and I quote from http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-841.html
> <quote>
> If all of your machines are the same arch and use the same repos you
> could set up a shared Yum cache like such:
> 
> - On your central machine, NFS (or Samba) export /var/cache/yum
> (you'll have to export it RW).
> - On each subsidiary machine set up autofs to automount the exported
> yum cache to a location like /misc/yum (automounter takes control of
> the mount point parent, so automount won't work well with /var/cache).
> Make sure they mount it RW.
> - On each subsidiary machine update yum.conf to use /misc/yum as the 
> cache dir.
> 
> You can then run 'yum update' on the primary machine and 'yum -C
> update' on your subsidiary machines. Run 'yum clean packages' after
> updating the last subsidiary machine to clear out the package cache as
> needed.
> 
> This method should keep you from having to download the bulk of the
> updates more than once, though you'll still have some one-offs for
> things that are difference between machines (for example, if one has
> VNC installed and the others do not). Do note - I have not tested
> this, so it's all theoretical. Let me know if it works!
> </quote>
> 
> Actually was contemplating using this same sort of approach with apt
> but never did get around to it.
> 
> On 3/16/07, Michal Ludvig <michal at logix.cz> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> is there something like apt-proxy for use with YUM on RH/CentOS? I have
>> a number of almost identical hosts and am not really keen to download
>> the updates from the net X-times. I prefer to download them once and
>> then serve to all hosts locally from a LAN.
>>
>> I could indeed rsync updates/i386 from some mirror, but that means
>> downloading all updates ever released, not only those interesting for my
>> fairly minimalistic hosts.
>>
>> Googling so far leads to nowhere but I may be asking wrong queries.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michal
>>
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