how to create an server which provide system updates to other system?

pdixit · 09-13-2016, 03:53 PM

In my organization 50 Linux desktops (Fedora Workstation) are running. if I update these desktop it takes lot of data. I want to create server and configure it to provide updates to other systems so that the data uses can minimize.

I want to create a system which take updates from Internet and other systems takes update from the first system. Is it possible to do the same? if yes how can I do it? please guide me.

IsaacKuo · 09-13-2016, 04:20 PM

Basically, you want one system to be a squid proxy server, that caches the updates. Then, you want to configure all of your other systems to use it as the proxy server for yum.

Here's the first google hit I came up with for this. I don't use a yum based distribution, so I can't vouch for this web page's accuracy:

http://serverascode.com/2014/03/29/squid-cache-yum.html

Emerson · 09-13-2016, 06:35 PM

This is how I do it in Gentoo. Gentoo keeps ebuilds and distfiles in /usr/portage. One box exports /usr/portage over NFS. All other boxes mount shared portage to their local /usr/portage. Done.
You can do same in Fedora, just different directories.