Todd Zullinger wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> But couldn't yum just have an option to look for RPMs on the local >> network? Ie look first in local cache, then on LAN, then at remote >> repo. I would have thought that would be easy to implement. > > It's trivial to change the yum repo settings to look anywhere you > want. Concretely, I want yum to look first in /var/cache/yum/updates on my laptop, then in alfred:/var/cache/yum/updates on a local machine, and then in the remote repository. What exactly can I put in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo to implement this? > It's also possible to become a private mirror and have the default > fedora mirrorlists return your own site when clients within your > netblock request updates. See How can someone make a private mirror? > at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring, which I > believe was already mentioned in this thread. I've looked at a couple of the sites mentioned in this thread, and I am afraid the instructions are simply too complicated to follow. (The document you mention seems to have over 100 pages, which to me is information over-kill.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
