Question about yum: 5 different machines, 1 slow dialup connection

throttling, connection recovery, etc.). Unfortunately CentOS 4 uses Yum 2.4...

I ended up doing it a few packages at a time over nearly a week, with a final batch at the end (there was a batch of updates that had to happen together or yum itself would break -- sqlite + python + yum, for starters). I did this on a 'master' machine and then used rsync to sync yum's cache (-var-cache-yum-*-packages andvar-cache-yum-*-headers) to the other machines. I discovered that:

1) yum can recover from a hangup or otherwise broken connection, although it might mean restarting yum.

2) yum will sync itself to its cache if the cache 'magically' gets populated on the side (ala rsync of the headers and packages from another machine).

It would be *really* nice if some company like cheapbytes would offer some sort of subscription service where they would make a 'snapshot' of various repositories (yum, apt, whatever) on a regular basis (maybe quarterly or bi-monthly) and send out a 2-4 CD 'set' each period. *I'd* certainly pay like $10 for each such a set. I'd offer this service myself iff I had a high-speed connection and the hardware to bulk burn CDs. I'm sure there are lots of people with slow internet connections that would love a service like this.

-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-68 plus 133 Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration