Private Mirror/Repository

[William Stearns]

Good afternoon, Jonathan, all,

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Jonathan Allen wrote:

> 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 ...

 	I've put together a script to handle mirroring repositories 
locally.  http://www.stearns.org/yum-pull/ has the script and a howto 
document on how to set it all up.
 	Best of luck!
 	Cheers,
 	- Bill

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