If you are imaging servers over and over wouldn't it be easier to maintain a local repo and setup pxeboot with kickstart? On 5/24/07, Lorenzo <lorenzo at gmk.it> wrote: > Matt Shields ha scritto: > > I know up2date can be configured to save all RPMs it > > installs/upgrades. Can yum be made to do the same. If so, have 1 > > server connect to the mirrors, have it save all the rpms into a > > directory, run createrepo every so often to update the directory, and > > share out that directory with ftp or http so that your other servers > > can download the packages. > > > > Or do like I do, have 1 server that you use for imaging all my servers > > and mirror the CentOS repos, then I run Apache and have my local > > servers connect to that local repo. You don't even have to mirror the > > entire repo if you don't want. > > > > -matt > > > Since I'm on a testing stage, installing, upgrading, and re-installing several > times with slightly different setups and so on, I think the easiest way would > be to only configure one proxy line on yum.conf on each new installation than > playing each time with the .repo files on /etc/yum.repos.d or moving around > RPMs between systems... after all what I need is a proxy-cache which knows how > to handle RPMs: am I wrong? > > Lorenzo > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >