Local mirror for initial F8 updates

lanas lanas at securenet.net
Wed Dec 3 11:47:19 UTC 2008


On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:10:04 +1030,
Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote :

> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 05:58 -0500, lanas wrote:
> > I did a F8 install yesterday and

> You're aware that it's got about a month's life left in it, and then
> it's life support is cut off?  After the new year, it'll only be
> Fedora 9 and 10 still getting updates.  You'll be left with systems
> that have no bug and security fixes.

Considering that I've backed up from F10, the idea would be to be able
to install/revert to a fully updated F8 for some time to come.  These
machines are not public servers and are well behind a firewall system.
Since so far F8 is stable for that kind of use, bug fixes are not a
worry.  Security fixes, if deemed important, could be made by removing
the package and compile it back from upstream.

So, is there a proven recipe to locally mirror the F8 update packages ?

Thanks.





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