Managing fedora installations behind firewall

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 23 March 2011 09:35, andreas palsson <wpt2097 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Imagine a fairly large network, with from 50-100 workstations running
> Fedora.
> Due to security, none of these machines have access to Internet.
>
> Now to the question; how to keep all those machines up to date with the
> latest packages?
>
> First, I imagine I have to set up a complete package repository.
> Using the contents of the Fedora DVD should be sufficient?
>
>
> Next, since the server is not connected to Internet either..
> How do I keep the repository manually updated and synchronized with the
> official mirrors?
>
>
> Last, how can I make a package which users can simply install to point their
> machines to update from the above mentioned server only, and remove the
> other install sources?

Cobbler will do much of this for you.

https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/

J.