Maintaining a local yum repository
Arthur Pemberton
pemboa at gmail.com
Sat Jan 26 18:32:55 UTC 2008
On Jan 26, 2008 10:25 AM, Derek Tattersall <tatters at newsguy.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I currently have 3 computers running Fedora 8. I think it would probably
> be a good thing to set up a local repository for yum, rather than
> downloading each package 3 times.
It would. I'm looking to set this up properly myself. Haven't recently
setup a mirror for that very purpose.
> I have looked at the howto at www.howtoforge.com, and I am not really
> happy with the method described there. It involves picking a particular
> mirror and using rsync to keep the local repository up to date.
That's they properly way.
> It seems to me that this would have some problems. For one thing it puts
> a bigger load on whichever mirror I am rsync'ing to.
For the first sync yes... subsequent syncs shouldn't be bad
> For another thing,
> It seems to that there might be some security issues with just grabbing
> the packages without checking the key as yum does.
Well... I don' know why you think that... you're still going to use
yum to install the pacages.
> Is there a better way to keep a local repository up to date? Ideally, I
> would like to find a way to just download the packages that my local
> users ask for, not the whole thing. And I would prefer to use the mirror
> list at fedora rather than just use one particular server.
Looks like you want this, https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/InstantMirror/
I haven't used it yet myself, but intend to investigate it.
> I would also prefer to automate the whole process rather than doing it
> manually.
There's no reason to rsync manually
> Does anybody have any ideas about this? Or would I be better off just
> continuing to use the fedora repository?
>
> Thanks
It's best to reduce bandwidth usage by caching it all.
A third option is to use squid... but I haven't investigated this
properly yet myself.
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