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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 04:23 am, Juan Francisco Torres Chacón wrote:
We just updated a SuSE 8.1 machine, and YOU downloaded a lot of RPMS to /var/lib....
Is there a procedure to reuse all that information and downloaded packages on a different machine?
Back with Suse 7.3 or 8 I had a simple system going, all machines NFS mounted /var/lib/YaST/... off a central server. Whichever machine needed it first actually downloaded each patch and all subsequent machines simply found it already available. It all looked the same as YOU ran but the download phase happened almost instantly. Then Suse went to YaST2 and changed the location. I never bothered to find out where the patches were kept. Till now. It looks as if /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/ is a good mount point. Under that a fairly familiar tree branches out .../i386/update/8.2/rpm, patches and scripts Having found that out, I'll re-instate this on the cluster. But at home, I've been using the house squid to cache downloads. At home a network joins all computers to a Suse-server with a shared ADSL connection, which runs a squid web cache. Configure this into YaST:Network Services:Proxy as a URL ( for me this is: HTTP: http://brennan.localdomain:3128 FTP: http://brennan.localdomain:3128 ) and yast will use the squid It will cache all downloads and re-supply them at 100 Meg. Messier as we will end up with 3 copies of the patch, 1 in the squid cache, 1 in the workstation and 1 in the server's patch dir. Also depending on the squid's settings, it may not cache it (too big) or may dump it for lack of space. There's 2 more methods... michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166