Downloading everything under .../Everything .../Fedora

[David Boles]

Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:21 -0400, David Boles wrote:
> 
>> But do you really need all of the office suites? All of GNOME? Or KDE? Or 
>> Apache? All of the language packages?  ;-)
>>
>> And Anne is correct here. Fedora has said before that some things just don't 
>> play together well.
>>
>> If you are looking for a local repo of packages that you can install on 
>> several machines why not just set yum to keep the package(s) that you download 
>> and use them on the other machines instead of downloading all of these 
>> packages? Most of which you will not use anyway.
>>
> 
> Honestly don't need everything, but have a number of different Fedora
> boxes all F9 (excl rawhides)
> 
> I would need X,Gnome, and the fedora base.
> 
> Show me how tp yum local.repo that on my centos5x server, and I'll
> probably go that way.  el google wasn't much help as it's talking about
> using dvd images etc.. whebn doing locals.


http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos

or question #11 here

http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

As for keeping the downloaded packages?

change keepcache=0 to keepcache=1 in the yum.conf file



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   David

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