[Yum] Yum Problem

[David Timms]

John Pierce wrote:
>> Try this:
>>  just symlink or mount the packages subdir into nfs. packages are fine
>> in nfs, sqlite db files, not as much.
>>
> Ok, symlinking did not work, I did the following for the symlink:
> 
> ln -s /video2/f8/cache /var/cache/yum
> 
> That made an ls /var/cache/yum show me the repo directories just like
> looking at the original /var/cache/yum.
> 
> You lost me though with this "mount the packages subdir into nfs", I have been
> using linux for about 9 years and I learn something new everyday.
> 
> Do you mean to export the cache dir directly and then mount
> ns1:/video2/f8/cache /var/cache/yum or
> something entirely different?

I think I can explain that:
- the structure under /var/cache/yum  contains a folder for each item in 
active .repo
- within each of those folders get the download of the repo's repodata 
directory, including the sqlite cache.
- within the folders a folder called packages contains the downloaded .rpms

So: eg:
- /var/cache/yum/updates/ should be real {since it has the sqlite cache}
- /var/cache/yum/updates/packages can be symlinked to your central storage
- repeat for other repos you want to cache.

DaveT.