On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:01:42AM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 23:43, seth vidal wrote:
> > - For people with more than one machine on their
> > home network, easy GUI setup so that RPMs are
> > downloaded only once, stored on one machine disk
> > and other just have to pick-up things on the local network
> > (may be with up2date option and minimal system-config-nfs ?)
>
> I wish I even remotely understood this. You want the current
> repositories to ALL be downloaded and dumped into some dir?
I run an update tool (let's say up2date) on machine 1,
it figures out it needs to download a few headers,
then downloads 50 Megabytes of RPMs, then install things.
I run the same update tool on machine 2,
it figures out it needs to download a few headers,
then downloads 50 Megabytes of RPMs, then install things.
=> Replace all "download" in the second paragraph by
look at machine 1 previously downloaded headers
and RPMs and don't download anything from the net.
you need to nfs mount a shared directory.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date, set keepAfterInstall to 1
and storageDir to that shared directory.
GUI won't work because primarilly you need a shared space, and
except NFS that won't work well, and setting up an NFS space is
not a simple GUI click option. But it ain't hard for a sysadmin.
Daniel
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