On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:13:34AM +0530, susmit shannigrahi wrote: > > You can still have a public mirror in the university but not tie it up > > to the Fedora mirror list and circulate the details amoung local LUG's. > > That would be helpful to people who are in and around India. > > > > Rahul > > > Yes, that can be done. Ahh, that's a different question, and thanks Rahul for noticing. You're of course free to have "private" mirrors - e.g. mirrors intended for use by a University or other organization, where either by network architecture or firewall rules you may or may not be serving people outside of your own local community. The Fedora MirrorManager software can still be of help here. You'd pull the Fedora bits from one of the listed public mirrors, but in MirrorManager you'd set up your Site as a "private" mirror. It won't appear on the public mirrorlists, but if you then also set up a set of Netblocks (IP address ranges for your University), mirrormanager will automatically redirect yum clients in your netblock to your local private mirror. You run 'report_mirror' on your local private mirror to inform the mirrormanager database what you're carrying; if there's a yum client request for content you're not carrying (e.g. ppc), they'll get directed to one of the public mirrors for that content. That lets you get the most bang-for-your-buck: you only need disk space for the content that's popular, and that popular content gets served from your local mirror; less popular content you're not carrying gets served by one of the public mirrors. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
