On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:16:10PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > Jonathan Allen wrote: > >Hi there ! > > > >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 ? > > > >Any pointers to doing this and gotchas to beware of would be welcome ... > > Try: > http://www.tqmcube.com/repo.htm Nice, but for base, this howto requires extracting the files from the ISOs. My techinique is a bit more involved (you set up a CD server) but that cuts your disk usage for base in half (unless you discard the ISOs, which I recommend against. http://www.charlescurley.com/yum.html > > For FC3 or later, you'd be editing .repo files from /etc/yum.repos.d > rather than /etc/yum.conf but the basic procedure is as described > there. And on mine. Hmmm, time to update mine. :-) -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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