On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 11:57 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote:
On Jan 26, 2008 8:25 AM, Derek Tattersall <tatters(a)newsguy.com>
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?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Derek Tattersall tatters(a)newsguy.com
>
When I had two servers running Fedora2 and both my wife and I's
workstation, and my laptop all running FC2 - what I did was get one of
the servers to do an automatic update at say 02:00 - and do not delete
the resultant packages...
The resultant packages were then NFS shared to the rest of the systems
as a background mount.....
The result - when yum ran on the rest of the machines, if it found those
packages already on disk - it didn't re-download them - thus saving
downloading everything 5 times..
Also no problems with keys - as still using the repo ;-)
Ok - didn't stop the download of what needed to be downloaded - but that
traffic was minimal compared to the actual packages.....
Helluva lot better (IMHO) that rsyncing the entire repo - 'cause you
won't need a vast majority of what that repo has..
Just my 2c
AM