On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:16:10PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
Jonathan Allen wrote:
Hi there !
A client has a number of machines on their internal LAN, all running FC4. To keep them all up2date takes quite a lot time and bandwidth because even at 512M broadband speeds the stuff has to be downloaded for all the machines on the network. Could I set them up with their firewall machine holding a mirror of the Fedora Core and Extras repositories and have all the network machines point to the firewall for repositories ?
Any pointers to doing this and gotchas to beware of would be welcome ...
Nice, but for base, this howto requires extracting the files from the ISOs. My techinique is a bit more involved (you set up a CD server) but that cuts your disk usage for base in half (unless you discard the ISOs, which I recommend against. http://www.charlescurley.com/yum.html
For FC3 or later, you'd be editing .repo files from /etc/yum.repos.d rather than /etc/yum.conf but the basic procedure is as described there.
And on mine. Hmmm, time to update mine. :-)