SAVING DOWNLOADs FROM REPOS

[lemon]

AOA
i was installing FC 6 on couple of individual systems and i had to update everyone of them individually using yum and it took a lot of time to get all the updates so is there a way to save those files locally and then install them locally ??
Thnx

[lambda]

what is in your /var/cache/yum directory?

[lemon]

thnx lambda but how can i make sure that yum gets all the updates from a local cache
first should i just copy the /var/cache/yum folder onto other computers and run yum update ??

Note: i dont want to create a local repo server i just want to take updates portably and install them whenever and where ever i choos

Thnx a lot

[lambda]

i guess you could nfs mount /var/cache/yum/updates or whatever you need on the other machines.

[barlas]

first should i just copy the /var/cache/yum folder onto other computers and run yum update ??

Wouldn't that work too? That is copying all packages to /var/cache/yum of target machine and then running yum?

[lambda]

i think it should work. he could use rsync to copy them over.

[LinuxFreaK]

Dear barlas,
Salam,

Its working for him but now he is confused with how he can copy them to all computer. Better solution is to mount NFS/SMB share which has been suggested by lambda.

Best Regards.

[barlas]

I was just curious and I thought he have only 2 systems. In that case copying is not much of a problem, though making NFS share would still be a better choice as it would save from duplication of data/waste of space