[Novalug] Centralized yum repository?

Peter Larsen plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com
Tue May 15 19:07:27 EDT 2007


Russell Evans wrote:
> On Sat, 12 May 2007 21:59:15 -0400
> "Peter Larsen" <plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com> wrote:
> 
>> If you have 10-20 fedora installations, or similar controlled by yum, is
>> it possible to have ONE box do the external updates, and set the other
>> boxes up to simply use the internal box for updates??
>>
>> I was considering a mirror site of one of the distributions, however how
>> do you manage the repository link that yum uses to get repository
>> information??
>>
>> Regards
>>     Peter Larsen
>>
> 
> This should be appropriate 
> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Creating-a-Local-Update-Repository-for-FC6-43559.shtml

Hey Russell,
That was WAY OVER COOL as someone way younger than me would have said 
it. To setup the mirror I waited about 2 hours for downloads to happen. 
But (with a bit of tweaking) once I got the yum repository working, it's 
done in less than 2 minutes. TOTAL.

I'm a happy camper!!
Thanks!

--
   Peter Larsen
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