Once upon a time, Jonathan Allen <jonathan(a)barumtrading.co.uk> said:
A client has a number of machines on their internal LAN, all running
FC4.
To keep them all up2date takes quite a lot time and bandwidth because
even at 512M broadband speeds the stuff has to be downloaded for all
the machines on the network. Could I set them up with their firewall
machine holding a mirror of the Fedora Core and Extras repositories and
have all the network machines point to the firewall for repositories ?
Yes. There are a couple of ways to mirror the files:
- some mirrors offer rsync access - this is the easiest
- or you can use a program like "mirror" to fetch everything via FTP
Then you change the /etc/yum.repos.d/* files to point to your internal
server: comment out the "mirrorlist" line and uncomment the "baseurl"
line and change it to point to your server instead of the Fedora master
servers.
You'll need a web server running on the inside interface of your
firewall; thttpd from Extras is a lightweight server that works just
fine for serving this (easier to configure than Apache too).
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.