[Yum] Running Yum Remotely

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 22:23 -0500, Chris Betti wrote:
> Another idea I had was running Yum remotely. For example, running Yum on 
> a modern system with plenty of resources but telling it to calculate 
> everything based on the old system. Is this feasible, perhaps with some 
> work? Is Yum's code modular enough that it can serve information from 
> the old system to the new system for dependency processing and XML 
> processing with just a little work?

You could mount the remote system's root via NFS/CIFS and use
--installroot, but only if the systems use the same metadata format
(rpmmd vs. yum-arch), and if you don't mind possibly opening security
holes in your network.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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