[CentOS] Package Distribution Server?

John R Pierce
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:01:05 -0000

Zhihao Lou wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I'm trying to set up a lab with multiple workstations running CentOS
> 5. Does anybody knows how to keep the packages in sync among
> workstations? Ideally I want any change made on any machine be able to
> applied to all other machines. Alternatively, to "push" the
changes
> (add and/or remove packages) from one central server to all other
> machine is also fine.
>

create your own inhouse yum repo, put the packages you want to update on
that server, and have the workstations do a nightly `yum update` (after,
of course, being configured to use your repo instead of the default
internet centos repo)