Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] urpmi-4.7.6-1mdk

[Rafael Garcia-Suarez]

On 6/10/05, Adam Williamson <awilliamson@mandriva.com> wrote:
> urpmi on the host machine will ask each machine in the group which
> packages it needs to update, go out and grab all the packages,
> distribute them via scp to each machine, then have each machine update
> itself. The recent change is that having the host machine in the
> parallel group now works (i.e. having 'localhost'
> in /etc/urpmi/parallel.cfg) - previously, urpmi would trip over its own
> lock files, but rafael's fixed this.

A few notes : the name "localhost" is mandatory, don't put an alias to
your local machine.
Also, you might want to put in place some key-based authentication for
root login on your other machines, if you don't want to type your root
passwords each time urpmi scps an rpm to a distant host.

> I'm not sure the 'fanout' stage is necessary, I think each machine goes
> off the hdlists on the host machine, but I do it just to make sure each
> machine has its hdlists up to date if I want to urpmi something on the
> machine individually.

Yes. Actually, if you don't use urpmi locally on the other hosts, this
isn't necessary, since the server urpmi begins by distributing its
rebuilt synthesis file.