On 06/11/09 17:21, Mike Smith wrote:
I am currently reviewing the possibility of allowing some of our
employees to use Fedora on their machines instead of Windows. On of my
concerns is the bandwidth tied up by multiple machines downloading the
same RPMs through our Internet gateway. Is there a way to set up a
local RPM repository on our internal networks so that the RPMs only have
to be downloaded from the main repositories once. All of our user
machines would be configured to look at the local repository instead of
the main one.
As an example, I set up two test system yesterday with FC11. After the
initial install, each machine needed to download significant amounts of
updates. I would have much preferred that they got those updates from a
local source. This would have reduced the bandwidth clog on our gateway
(3MB bandwidth) and reduced the install time due to the updates coming
from a local source (1GB bandwidth).
Any suggestions or instruction would be greatly appreciated.
Mike
Mike,
There is an application called createrepo available which will create
the repo based on then RPMs in a directory. This should be a good place
to start. I've used it before with any problems.
JB