Private Mirror/Repository

[Paul Howarth]

Peter Arremann wrote:
> On Thursday 19 January 2006 02:55, Guido Leisker 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 ...
> 
> We're running such a setup. Basically we mirror the fedora site and then 
> create our own yum repository from there. All clients have their own yum 
> configurations to point to our repository rather than the official mirror 
> list.
> You can find some good info at 
> http://servers.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/22/1718242&tid=42

I came across that article yesterday when I was looking for references 
to use in my earlier reply. It's a good article, but having been written 
  for FC2 is a little out of date now ("createrepo" should be used 
instead of "yum-arch", and the configuration file updates should be made 
to .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d rather than /etc/yum.conf).

Paul.