On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 11:25 -0500, Derek Tattersall 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? ---- I use mrepo from dag's repository. It's very effective and I can include whichever repository I wish. Craig
