Peter Arremann wrote:
On Thursday 19 January 2006 02:55, Guido Leisker 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 ...
We're running such a setup. Basically we mirror the fedora site and then
create our own yum repository from there. All clients have their own yum
configurations to point to our repository rather than the official mirror
list.
You can find some good info at
http://servers.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/22/1718242&tid=42
I came across that article yesterday when I was looking for references
to use in my earlier reply. It's a good article, but having been written
for FC2 is a little out of date now ("createrepo" should be used
instead of "yum-arch", and the configuration file updates should be made
to .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d rather than /etc/yum.conf).
Paul.
