Mogens Kjaer <> scribbled on Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:32 AM: >> Therefore I've planned to create a local repo on one of our servers, share >> /var/cache/yum, set keepcache to 1 on that server and have it reposync >> periodically (like once a week) with CentOS Base, Extras, rpmforge and so >> on. > > Why not make a "real" mirror using rsync, test new updates on a test > test machine, and run "yum update" on the clients when the test > machine is ok? Ok, that's a point I guess. Although, I don't quite see why this is different from the setup I mentioned though, could you elaborate a bit? What would the advantage be with your suggestion? Also, how can I let all the clients automatically update from the server, when the updates have been okayed? Yum-nightly maybe? > You could risk getting into trouble updating via a shared > /var/cache/yum when CentOS 5.3, 5.4, etc. comes out. I'd use repomanage to weed out old stuff, maybe with a cronjob, and only keep the latest versions. Also, there's always some hub-bub on this list, so I can preemtively disable the reposync, until the new version's been tested. > Use nvidia-x11-drv from rpmforge to get updated nvidia drivers. Are they any good? I inherited this linux-farm from the previous *nixadmin, and the way it's setup assumes we use the proprietary drivers from nvidia, as that's what the molecular modeling software company says'll work. We need the fancy 3D-stuff and whatnot. TIA. /S -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5126 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081023/0b174d22/attachment-0004.bin>