On 07/10/2007, das <dasd.here@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Friends > > I want to keep a local copy of the Fedora 7 repository, only the i386 > branch. This will be updated in regular intervals, that I can break it > into DVD-s (or, even CD-s) and write them, and after installing F7 in a > machine, the 'yum' can be run on these DVD-s. > > We run a kind of a local Linux club (GLT Madhyamgram) and some of us > don't have Internet Connection at all, or, a dial-up connection. So, for > all these friends, and me too, because the Net connection is not always > very good (this is a third world version of broadband) and so it takes > quite a lot of time for 'yum' to initialize after checking the mirrors. > Running 'yum' on a locally updated repository will save this time. > > Now, can anyone please suggest a very simple way of doing this thing? > Remember I am no developer, just a teacher-writer involved in Linux. So, > something that I can work myself. For Ubuntu that thing is really there, > very simple instructions and that do work pretty well depending on > 'debmirror' and 'debcopy'. I have done that myself, for our friends that > are using Ubuntu, and me too, before migrating to F7 due to Bangla > rendering problems in Ubuntu 7.04. man reposync reposync is included in the yum-utils package. Use createrepo to turn the downloaded packages into a local Yum repository, which to offer in your network. Alternatively, create your own mirroring script based on rsync, lftp, wget, curl, <insert other tools here> and simply copy regularly what your favourite Fedora download server offers. Depending on how often and accurately you do it, you may need to run "createrepo" yourself appropriately.
