Private Mirror/Repository

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:16:10PM +0000, Paul Howarth 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

Nice, but for base, this howto requires extracting the files from the
ISOs. My techinique is a bit more involved (you set up a CD server)
but that cuts your disk usage for base in half (unless you discard the
ISOs, which I recommend against. http://www.charlescurley.com/yum.html

> 
> 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.

And on mine. Hmmm, time to update mine. :-)

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