yum local repository howto?

dalen dalen at czexan.net
Tue Jan 6 14:45:42 UTC 2004


Fellow Fedorians,
	I would like to setup a local yum mirror of base/updates-released kept 
up with a nightly run of rsync.  Then I can configure each fedora box 
yum.conf to point to this server.  I have a few questions related to 
this.  If anyone knows of a faq or howto related to this, please send me 
a pointer.

Does anyone know how to rsync from the public Redhat servers?

If I have to rsync from a mirror, does a differing directory structure 
matter and if so how?

Which files/directories are needed by yum base and updates-released 
other than headers/rpms/srpms, or which can be skipped (*.iso)?

If I switch to a local repository after some updates from the Redhat 
servers, do I need to do any maintenance first such as delete 
/var/cache/yum?

Thanks,

Dale





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