Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (517 mails)

[Richard Creighton <rccj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 25 July 2010 11:33:29 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2010-07-25 17:18, Richard Creighton wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 July 2010 11:03:13 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > On 2010-07-25 16:37, Richard Creighton wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 25 July 2010 07:09:04 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Check out Dave Rankins contribution:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE/pkgmanage/pkgmanage.tar.bz
> > > > 2
> > > >
> > > > Works great and using cron or other method, you can automate it
> > > > completely. He put a lot of thought and effort into this package and it
> > > > is well documented and allows all your issues to be addressed across
> > > > multiple machines and versions including simultaneous updates.   He
> > > > deserves many thanks.
> > >
> > > I think I have seen it. Creating a local repo?
<snip>
> For this scenario a full local repo is impossible. The shared directories
> via nfs are workable, with some care.
>
> It is also possible to build, picking the files already downloaded by each
> computer in the network, a local repo of whatever we have, even
> incomplete. But there is no way I know that YaST could pick packages from
> that incomplete repo and what is missing from a remote.

This is exactly what Dave's solution is.... you are NOT replicating a full 
repo, JUST the RPMs that you actually install on any of the machines at your 
site and only once and if you have a DVD, only files not on the DVD, eg, 
updates and files you download from other repos like Packman or VLC.

You really should check it out....it is a total solution that is right for low 
bandwidth challenged installations as well as those with fiber optics :)   It 
would be especially good for a 56k site with multiple computers needing common 
files.

Richard
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