On Jan 26, 2008 10:25 AM, Derek Tattersall <tatters(a)newsguy.com> 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.
It would. I'm looking to set this up properly myself. Haven't recently
setup a mirror for that very purpose.
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.
That's they properly way.
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 the first sync yes... subsequent syncs shouldn't be bad
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.
Well... I don' know why you think that... you're still going to use
yum to install the pacages.
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.
Looks like you want this,
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/InstantMirror/
I haven't used it yet myself, but intend to investigate it.
I would also prefer to automate the whole process rather than doing
it
manually.
There's no reason to rsync manually
Does anybody have any ideas about this? Or would I be better off
just
continuing to use the fedora repository?
Thanks
It's best to reduce bandwidth usage by caching it all.
A third option is to use squid... but I haven't investigated this
properly yet myself.
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