Preupgrade: Centralized Upgrade

[Bill Davidsen]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/07/2009 04:53 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
>> Without having to create a local mirror\repo.
>> Is it possible for preupgrade to pool all Fedora PC's,
>> on a lan.
>>
>> Then download all needed for all boxes, (presto where possible).
>> That way it could be more automated save multiple similar rpms,
>> maybe I mean a server version?
> 
> A server version for preupgrade alone doesn't really make sense.
> Preupgrade uses yum and there are some tricks for caching the packages
> and metadata.
> 
> http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching
> 
If you have the right connectivity you can NFS mount /var/cache/yum between 
systems, which I have been doing for FC{9,10,11} thus far.

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