Am 12.12.2011 21:49, schrieb Alan McKay: > Hey folks, > > I just did an update on a system that is taking the better part of a day ( > 5.3 ---> 5.7 ) mainly due to file download times. > > And I have 4 or 5 more systems to do. > > I know I can create my own repository and then point them at it - but that > is difficult here because rsync is blocked (ggrrrrrr...) > > Surely there must be a way to have yum on the first box automatically cache > everything and then have the other boxes use the cache? Maybe if not > directly, then with squid or something like that? > > Anyone happen to have done this before? i am using this script since years to have running one build/update-server caching all packages in a local-repo and all other machines in the network have only the via http exported cache-repo active this machine must have all packages used in the whole network installed this si for fedora, but CentOS should not be the big difference 1. you save bandwith / time 2. you can be sure that all machines having the same package-versions [root at buildserver:~]$ cat /buildserver/repo-cache.sh #!/bin/bash basearch=`uname -i` releasever=`rpm -q --qf "%{version}\n" fedora-release` # Alle Subfolder unter "/var/cache/yum" durchlaufen und RPM-Pakete # in das eigene Repo kopieren for g in `ls -1b /var/cache/yum` do if [ -d /var/cache/yum/$g/packages ] then echo "/var/cache/yum/$g/packages/ > /repo/cache/fc$releasever/" sudo cp --verbose /var/cache/yum/$g/packages/*.rpm /repo/cache/fc$releasever/ 2> /dev/null fi done sudo createrepo -d /repo/cache/fc$releasever/ sudo chown -R builduser:builduser /repo/cache/fc$releasever/ sudo chmod -R 755 /repo/cache/fc$releasever/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20111212/090e0c77/attachment-0005.sig>