[Yum] synchronization and large deployments

Connie Sieh csieh at fnal.gov
Thu Dec 5 17:27:26 UTC 2002


Miles,

We also pre seed the yum headers area so that the first time yum runs it
does not have to download all of the headers.

-Connie Sieh
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, seth vidal wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 21:06, Miles Egan wrote:
> > I'm considering rolling yum out to several hundred machines and the only
> > thing holding me back is the load so many simultaneous updates will put
> > on the web server.
> >
> > Would it make any sense to implement a random delay option in yum for
> > staggered updates or should I just wrap the yum invocation with my own
> > delay script?
>
> read the yum man page
>
> I think you'll find yum -R does just that
>
>
> we have a similar problem :)
>
> -sv
>
>
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