On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:14 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 19:10 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2008 4:17 PM, Martin Marques <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > But in reality, after you install mrepo and configure (and it took, me a > > > > day or so to get everything that wasn't included on the DVD and all of > > > > 'updates' downloaded), the benefit is that it's always lightning quick > > > > to install/update because everything is local. > > > > > > Craig, I quite understand the benefits of a synced mirror (we have them > > > at work) but at home I don't have disk space to use. :-( > > > > 16GB? > > I have everything from FC6 to today mirrored at home, 32 and 64 bit. > It's ~126 GB. > > Luckily, 500GB drives are pretty cheap these days (last I checked Newegg > had them for about $109 with free shipping). ---- you must have a LOT of 3rd party repos... # du -sh f* 11G fc6-i386 7.2G fc7-i386 8.2G fc7-ppc 8.3G fc7-x86_64 4.2G fc8-i386 4.9G fc8-ppc 4.9G fc8-x86_64 # ls -l fc6-i386/ total 1404 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 454656 Dec 9 00:31 extras drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:22 local drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 15 2007 os -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 853899 Oct 13 2006 os-comps.xml drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 102400 Dec 8 04:20 updates drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 29 2006 version Craig
