Maintaining a local yum repository

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 16:53 -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
> Craig White escribió:
> > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 14:45 -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
> >> macgyver escribió:
> >>> When I had two servers running Fedora2 and both my wife and I's
> >>> workstation, and my laptop all running FC2 - what I did was get one of
> >>> the servers to do an automatic update at say 02:00 - and do not delete
> >>> the resultant packages...
> >>>
> >>> The resultant packages were then NFS shared to the rest of the systems
> >>> as a background mount.....
> >> Has anybody tried yam?
> >>
> >> http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/yam/
> > ----
> > yam is now mrepo
> > 
> > It's awesome
> 
> Is there something that will just do proxy with cache and not mirror 
> sync? I mean, just download what you're installing or updating to get 
> cached in disk, not the whole repo.
> 
> Something like a proxy. :-D
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in essence, all you need is a web server, the 'createrepo' package (to
create the repodata directory) and a customized local.repo file in
yum.repos.d

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.

It also becomes real easy to do a new install (via http).

Craig