Scott Silva wrote: > Lorenzo spake the following on 5/21/2007 10:03 AM: >> Oliver Schulze L. ha scritto: >>> You can download all the files in one server that then use .rpms >>> with something like: >>> >>> http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq#Q11 >>> >>> or >>> >>> http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/createrepo/ >>> >>> HTH >>> Oliver >>> >> Sure, but yu'll end downloading a lot of unneeded rpms.. (for example >> foreign languages, PAE kernel, kernel-devel and so on...) which may be >> worse than downloading the same rpm 3 or 4 times! >> >> Regards >> >> Lorenzo > I have never tried it, but maybe you could rsync the yum cache from one > machine to another. * Set up an mrepo server, with only a local repository. * Use yum to update one machine. * Copy the packages from this machine to the desired local repository, * Regenerate yum repo data with merepo and configure all computers' yum to use the mrepo repository. * I'm sure that yum can do download only and then with a perl or bash script you can have the mrepo local repository synced. Jean