Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 11:11, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
I'm at a loss for words now.
I think that's basically what everyone was saying earlier. Take one system, and use the RPMs in its YUM cache. It's straight-forward and easy to do.
Please quantify easy.
It is very scriptable. A simple copy (rsync, cp, scp, etc.) and a single command to build the metadata (yum-arch in the CentOS 3 case) for each repo.
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Today I'd have a use for at least 6 variations, although I guess you'd double that with the suggested overlap of testing/staging instances.
Only if you choose to not use upstream for your testing.
With a little thought about the process, yum updates could be made to be repeatable without extra work, network traffic or any other overhead.
All three are required, you are just suggesting pushing them all to the mirror servers rather than on your local repo.