The updates firehose

[Rahul Sundaram]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 04:41:12PM -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
>> Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>>
>>> Are people complaining?
>> I don't complain when it happens with my own computer that's
>> being updated daily... but it's painful when you update a
>> dozen of desktops in the office to F7 and all them want to
>> download 500MB worth of updates the first time they boot.
>>
>> Yes, I could use a local Fedora mirror.  And, in fact,
>> I do.  But then I'd have to customize the yum config on
>> all clients to go look there.
> 
> You can add your local private mirror to mirrormanager, add a netblock
> that covers your address space, and all your clients will then pull
> from your local mirror rather than public mirrors, with no change on
> the clients.
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring

Matt, would you be interested in writing a updated mirror guide? The one 
at http://docs.fedoraproject.org is pretty outdated and we need to cover 
all the new configurations and features in the new mirror manager.

Rahul