On 06/11/09 17:21, Mike Smith wrote: > I am currently reviewing the possibility of allowing some of our > employees to use Fedora on their machines instead of Windows. On of my > concerns is the bandwidth tied up by multiple machines downloading the > same RPMs through our Internet gateway. Is there a way to set up a > local RPM repository on our internal networks so that the RPMs only have > to be downloaded from the main repositories once. All of our user > machines would be configured to look at the local repository instead of > the main one. > > As an example, I set up two test system yesterday with FC11. After the > initial install, each machine needed to download significant amounts of > updates. I would have much preferred that they got those updates from a > local source. This would have reduced the bandwidth clog on our gateway > (3MB bandwidth) and reduced the install time due to the updates coming > from a local source (1GB bandwidth). > > Any suggestions or instruction would be greatly appreciated. > > Mike > Mike, There is an application called createrepo available which will create the repo based on then RPMs in a directory. This should be a good place to start. I've used it before with any problems. JB -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
