Local cache / 'repo' of updates and added RPM's

[Suvayu Ali]

On Saturday 15 August 2009 12:35 PM, Jay Mistry wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Bruno Wolff III<bruno at wolff.to>  wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 23:32:48 +0530,
>>   Jay Mistry<jaylinux53 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I had to re-install Fedora 10 on a home desktop PC. In regard to this:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to have a local cache/ "repository" of all
>>> 1) Updates (Critical, Security, Bug-fixes), and
>>> 2) Additional installed rpm's (that were installed through PackageKit),
>> e.g.
>>> Opera, Adobe Reader, etc.
>>> so that I do not have to download all those again (800 MB + D/L)
>>
>> Sure. Just put the rpms of interest in a directory, run createrepo on the
>> directory and set up an appropriate repo description in
>> /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo for some value of *.
>>
>> For myself I usually mirror the relevant arch parts of updates and
>> updates-testing and only put a few special things in a local repo.
>
>
> As an extension of this: is it possible to upgrade a Fedora 10 install to
> Fedora 11, by using the Fedora 11 DVD as a local repository ? This would
> save me (and also lot of other people who do not have fast Internet
> connections and/or with time-capped Internet subscriptions), a lot of
> bandwidth and time (and $$).
>

This thread might be useful for creating a local repo
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-June/thread.html#01934

> (As a 'by the by', I also prefer the Fedora 10 theme&  artwork ('Solar'
> theme) over Fedora 11's).
>
Me too! I don't understand why none of the Leonidas art work has a lion 
on it. I was pretty excited when I saw the logo on the project website, 
but as much disappointed when I found out "no lion" in the actual 
artwork. :(

-- 
Suvayu

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