Lorenzo 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. > >> > 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? A proxy doesn't need to know anything about RPM's - it's like any other httpd request through a proxy. It just needs to be configured to cache large files. And you don't even need to configure anything - you can pass the proxy in the environment, even on the command line like: http_proxy=http://my_proxy.domain.com:port yum update What you need is a yum that always uses the same URL to request the same file. The default is to pick something randomly from a list of mirrors. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com