Once upon a time, Jonathan Allen <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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). -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
