Jeffrey Tadlock wrote: > On Jan 26, 2008 11:25 AM, Derek Tattersall <tatters@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. > > As others have mentioned, InstantMirror would probably work well for this: > > https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/InstantMirror/wiki > > I have been using it for about three weeks now or so on a home network > with three machines active taking advantage of it and various test > installs and such using it when they are built up. It was pretty easy > to setup and once one machine updates, the other machines will just > grab it from the local repo. It has made updates here for subsequent > machines much, much faster. And when I rebuilt a laptop here with > Fedora 8 on it, the post install update process was less painful than > if I had to pull the updates from the web. I was vaguely surprised that noone mentioned the following: yum-utils contains a script called reposync which is more or less intended to do this for you. /usr/bin/reposync -e /var/www/html/repos/updates -r updates -n Works For Me(tm) :) reposync --help for details. although of course this entails downloading *everything* in the updates repo. Keeping a cache of updates you actually want is a better idea, IMHO. regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc.
