[Yum] how to utilize /var/cache/yum/*/packages on another machine?

[Robert Heller]

In message <009c01c6f851$f471dca0$0a0a0a0a at DELORIAN>, "Gary Funck" writes:
>
>We're in the process of upgrading several machines
>(to the latest FC5 updates).  One machine has
>already been updated, and keepcache=1 is asserted
>in its yum.conf file.  Therefore /var/cache/yum/*/packages
>is populated with many of the latest rpm's.
>
>How can we utilize these packages on the other machine
>to avoid downloading 0.6G each of duplicated rpm's on
>each of the target machines?

This is what I am doing:

#!/bin/csh
foreach d (/var/cache/yum/*/{headers,packages}/)
 sudo rsync -azv -e ssh $d witchking.deepsoft.com:$d
 sudo rsync -azv -e ssh $d smaug2.deepsoft.com:$d
end


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