On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 11:57 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Jan 26, 2008 8:25 AM, Derek Tattersall <tatters@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > 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. > > > > I have looked at the howto at www.howtoforge.com, and I am not really > > happy with the method described there. It involves picking a particular > > mirror and using rsync to keep the local repository up to date. > > > > It seems to me that this would have some problems. For one thing it puts > > a bigger load on whichever mirror I am rsync'ing to. For another thing, > > It seems to that there might be some security issues with just grabbing > > the packages without checking the key as yum does. > > > > Is there a better way to keep a local repository up to date? Ideally, I > > would like to find a way to just download the packages that my local > > users ask for, not the whole thing. And I would prefer to use the mirror > > list at fedora rather than just use one particular server. > > > > I would also prefer to automate the whole process rather than doing it > > manually. > > > > Does anybody have any ideas about this? Or would I be better off just > > continuing to use the fedora repository? > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > Derek Tattersall tatters@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > When I had two servers running Fedora2 and both my wife and I's workstation, and my laptop all running FC2 - what I did was get one of the servers to do an automatic update at say 02:00 - and do not delete the resultant packages... The resultant packages were then NFS shared to the rest of the systems as a background mount..... The result - when yum ran on the rest of the machines, if it found those packages already on disk - it didn't re-download them - thus saving downloading everything 5 times.. Also no problems with keys - as still using the repo ;-) Ok - didn't stop the download of what needed to be downloaded - but that traffic was minimal compared to the actual packages..... Helluva lot better (IMHO) that rsyncing the entire repo - 'cause you won't need a vast majority of what that repo has.. Just my 2c AM
