Maintaining a local yum repository

[Sudheer]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Derek Tattersall 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>> another thing, It seems to that there might be some security issues
>> with just grabbing the packages without checking the key as yum
>> does.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I would also prefer to automate the whole process rather than doing
>> it manually.
>>
>> Does anybody have any ideas about this? Or would I be better off
>> just continuing to use the fedora repository?
>>     
>
> i'd be interested in knowing this as well.  what i wanted was a way to
> start with an empty local repo, then, when i update one system, all
> RPMs that are downloaded are also used to start populating this local
> repo.
>
> next, when i update another system, the local repo will be examined
> first, after which the mirrors will be checked and (once again)
> anything that has to be downloaded will quietly be added to the local
> repo.  and so on and so on.
>
> not surprisingly, i intend to put that local repo on an external hard
> drive hanging off of my router so that it's available to all local,
> internal machines.
>
> thoughts?
>
>   
I too am looking for the exact same solution.
> rday
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