On Friday, June 04, 2010 12:01 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Zhihao Lou wrote: >> Dear List, >> >> I'm trying to set up a lab with multiple workstations running CentOS >> 5. Does anybody knows how to keep the packages in sync among >> workstations? Ideally I want any change made on any machine be able to >> applied to all other machines. Alternatively, to "push" the changes >> (add and/or remove packages) from one central server to all other >> machine is also fine. >> > > create your own inhouse yum repo, put the packages you want to update on > that server, and have the workstations do a nightly `yum update` (after, > of course, being configured to use your repo instead of the default > internet centos repo) Or sync everything/relevant tree from a local mirror to run a local Centos (Centos x) repo and then setup another repo for your own packages.