On Jan 26, 2008 10:25 AM, Derek Tattersall <tatters@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
