Private Mirror/Repository
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jan 18 16:16:10 UTC 2006
Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Hi there !
>
> A client has a number of machines on their internal LAN, all running FC4.
> To keep them all up2date takes quite a lot time and bandwidth because
> even at 512M broadband speeds the stuff has to be downloaded for all
> the machines on the network. Could I set them up with their firewall
> machine holding a mirror of the Fedora Core and Extras repositories and
> have all the network machines point to the firewall for repositories ?
>
> Any pointers to doing this and gotchas to beware of would be welcome ...
Try:
http://www.tqmcube.com/repo.htm
For FC3 or later, you'd be editing .repo files from /etc/yum.repos.d
rather than /etc/yum.conf but the basic procedure is as described there.
Paul.
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