Sharing yum between several machines

[Jonathan Underwood]

2009/2/28 Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>:
> Basically, I would like a system where yum looks first
> in a /common/yum/ directory NFS-mounted on several machines,
> and if it does not find what it is looking for
> then it goes to a mirror as before,
> and adds what it finds to /common/yum/ as well as installing it
> on the machine in question.
>
> Does yum have such a facility?
> I googled for "yum several machines" but all the solutions suggested,
> eg setting up a local mirror, seemed to me excessive for my purposes.
>

There's recently been an article on LWN about just this:

http://lwn.net/Articles/318658/

Be sure to read the comments as well.

J.

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