Going a bit off the deep end, here's another suggestion: There are other software update managers besides yum in the world, and at this point I want to talk about URPMI - the Mandrive update manager. URPMI can be installed on other operating systems then Mandrive and I've had success using it on CentOS 4 and some Fedora Core (can't remember). URPMI had a few interesting features that do not exist (or are hard to duplicate) in the competitors, one which is relevant to this discussion is the remote update capability: With URPMI installed on all the target machines, you need to only configure installation sources on one machine and push updates remotely from this machine to all the others. One way that I've used it is to have a local machine in the office that is easy to access and has the correct repositories configured, and whenever you need to push updates (lets say - with a cron job) you use it to sync the other machines. If you ever want to change your software repositories configuration - you only change it in one location.
The main downside for this is that you can only use repositories that support the URPMI metadata format. It is easy to set up a repository that supports both YUM and URPMI, but in Tom's case if he's going to set up a local CentOS repository then that is going to be a solution of its own without the URPMI setup. On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 08:26 +0200, Lior Okman wrote: > My suggestion is to install a caching http proxy (e.g. squid) somewhere > on your network, and make yum go through it. As long as you all of your > CentOS hosts use the same mirror (and not a different mirror each time), > the caching http proxy will return files from its cache. > > > IIRC, you need to change the yum.conf file to include the proxy > configuration option, and modify the repositories definition (in > /etc/yum.repos.d/) so that the repositories use the baseurl setting, > instead of the mirrorlist setting. > > > > > Lior > > > Tom Rosenfeld wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > I assume there is a simple answer to this. > > How do I get all of my linux workstation (all running the same version > > of CentOS 4) to use the same yum cache? > > > > Thanks, > > -tom > > 054-244-8025 > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
