Private Mirror/Repository

[Don Maxwell]

On 1/18/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>
> 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.


The firewall may not be the best place to mirror yum repositories.  Perhaps
one server could be setup as a local repository.  I did to solve firewall
incompatiablity issues.  Mine is currently using about 16GB.

The folks at fedoranews.org did a fine job documenting how to setup a local
respository:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/hal_canary/yum/
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