Maintaining a local yum repository

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 20:21 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:29 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:14 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 19:10 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > > On Jan 27, 2008 4:17 PM, Martin Marques <martin at marquesminen.com.ar> wrote:
> > > > > > But in reality, after you install mrepo and configure (and it took, me a
> > > > > > day or so to get everything that wasn't included on the DVD and all of
> > > > > > 'updates' downloaded), the benefit is that it's always lightning quick
> > > > > > to install/update because everything is local.
> > > > >
> > > > > Craig, I quite understand the benefits of a synced mirror (we have them
> > > > > at work) but at home I don't have disk space to use. :-(
> > > > 
> > > > 16GB?
> > > 
> > > I have everything from FC6 to today mirrored at home, 32 and 64 bit.
> > > It's ~126 GB.
> > > 
> > > Luckily, 500GB drives are pretty cheap these days (last I checked Newegg
> > > had them for about $109 with free shipping).
> > ----
> > you must have a LOT of 3rd party repos...
> > 
> > # du -sh f*
> > 11G     fc6-i386
> > 7.2G    fc7-i386
> > 8.2G    fc7-ppc
> > 8.3G    fc7-x86_64
> > 4.2G    fc8-i386
> > 4.9G    fc8-ppc
> > 4.9G    fc8-x86_64
> > 
> > # ls -l fc6-i386/
> > total 1404
> > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 454656 Dec  9 00:31 extras
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Nov 28 15:22 local
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 May 15  2007 os
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 853899 Oct 13  2006 os-comps.xml
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 102400 Dec  8 04:20 updates
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Oct 29  2006 version
> 
> No, no third party stuff.  
> 
> [root at ml110 fedora]# du -hs /var/www/html/pub/fedora/*
> 24G     /var/www/html/pub/fedora/core
> 13G     /var/www/html/pub/fedora/extras
> 67G     /var/www/html/pub/fedora/releases
> 25G     /var/www/html/pub/fedora/updates
> 
> But I do also have all the ISOs, so it gets a bit portly.
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ahhh - I use mrepo and it builds the 'core' packages from the CD/DVD
iso's by making links so you don't have to duplicate.

these weren't included in my above calcs...

# ls -lh /var/mrepo/iso/
total 30G
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.8G Jun  1  2007 F-7-i386-DVD.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  98M Jun  1  2007 F-7-i386-rescuecd.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.4G May 26  2007 F-7-ppc-DVD.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.3G Jul 16  2007 F-7-x86_64-DVD.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  98M Jul 16  2007 F-7-x86_64-rescuecd.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 676M Oct 28  2006 FC-6-i386-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 682M Oct 28  2006 FC-6-i386-disc2.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 679M Oct 29  2006 FC-6-i386-disc3.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 683M Oct 29  2006 FC-6-i386-disc4.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 646M Oct 29  2006 FC-6-i386-disc5.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 687M Jun  1  2007 Fedora-7-KDE-Live-i686.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.2G Nov  9 08:01 Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103M Nov  9 06:55 Fedora-8-i386-rescuecd.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 699M Nov  9 13:46 Fedora-8-Live-KDE-i686.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 806M Nov  9 12:57 Fedora-8-Live-KDE-x86_64.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.9G Nov 10 04:07 Fedora-8-ppc-DVD.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135M Nov  9 23:01 Fedora-8-ppc-rescuecd.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.7G Nov  9 07:08 Fedora-8-x86_64-DVD.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104M Nov  9 03:49 Fedora-8-x86_64-rescuecd.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 617M Sep 18 10:24 K12LTSP-6.0.0-32bit-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 629M Sep 18 10:24 K12LTSP-6.0.0-32bit-disc2.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 646M Sep 18 10:25 K12LTSP-6.0.0-32bit-disc3.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 637M Sep 18 10:26 K12LTSP-6.0.0-32bit-disc4.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 642M Sep 18 10:26 K12LTSP-6.0.0-32bit-disc5.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 654M Sep 18 10:27 K12LTSP-6.0.0-32bit-disc6.iso

Craig