On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Mike Smith <Mike.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am currently reviewing the possibility of allowing some of our employees > to use Fedora on their machines instead of Windows. On of my concerns is > the bandwidth tied up by multiple machines downloading the same RPMs through > our Internet gateway. Is there a way to set up a local RPM repository on > our internal networks so that the RPMs only have to be downloaded from the > main repositories once. All of our user machines would be configured to > look at the local repository instead of the main one. > > As an example, I set up two test system yesterday with FC11. After the > initial install, each machine needed to download significant amounts of > updates. I would have much preferred that they got those updates from a > local source. This would have reduced the bandwidth clog on our gateway > (3MB bandwidth) and reduced the install time due to the updates coming from > a local source (1GB bandwidth). > > Any suggestions or instruction would be greatly appreciated. > > Mike > -- I use a similar approach as outlined in this link: http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos All you need is the distribution ISO, and the createrepo and rsync commands. You can always experiment to get the hang of it and ask when you get stuck. In a simple setup you don't an apache or ftp server. It works very well. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
