Yum on several machines

[Timothy Murphy]

Dave Burns wrote:

> There might be a more elegant way to check whether the cache was
> complete (yum checkupdate piped into... ?) before trying to update. Or
> just have the master constantly updating and have all the rpms. At
> which point you might as well make it a local mirror?

Thanks for the suggestions, which I'll certainly look at.

But it surprises me there is no standard way of doing this.
It must be a fairly standard need nowadays.