On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:54:09 +1200 (NZST) > Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> yeah - which is what I did. Exported the centos files via a ftp server. >> >> Which is the point of my comment below. >> - there are times when having a ftp server is useful and required. >> - which is one of the annoyances of the Internet. >> The original poster asked a reasonable question, >> was told, no no no, don't do that, security is bad, >> But the original poster's question is reasonable - as I illustrated >> with my example. >> >> >> Derek. > > But surely you'd set up your own rpm depository in that situation, and add to > the config for each server. Then you have centralised package management and > only one access to the internet to keep current. And you'd have control of > the package versions released to all of your servers. > > Personally, I'd not use ftp for this, but yum. > > Steve
At the install stage (which is the aim) you can't do that I believe. Redhat and derivatives have always had network install, it just works (but also would via http).
