On 1/18/06, Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org 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 ...
Try: http://www.tqmcube.com/repo.htm
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.
The firewall may not be the best place to mirror yum repositories. Perhaps one server could be setup as a local repository. I did to solve firewall incompatiablity issues. Mine is currently using about 16GB.
The folks at fedoranews.org did a fine job documenting how to setup a local respository: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/hal_canary/yum/