On 06/22/2016 03:46 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Rick Stevens writes: > >> On 06/22/2016 02:39 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> > I have a bunch of x86-64 machines on my LAN. >> > >> > It seems to be a major waste of time to have each one of them plow >> > through and download all F24 packages. >> > >> > I suppose I can poke around and find where the first one ends up >> > downloading all the packages to, before the install, and then rsyncing >> > the whole thing over to the next box. >> > >> > But I was wondering if there was a less hacky way to do this. >> >> Uh, create your own local repo server, have it fetch the updates once >> and have your machines use your local repo to get their copies? > > Last time I checked, I was told that the full repo weighed in somewhere > north of 20 gigabytes. You have to have the content SOMEWHERE local, don't you? You don't have to mirror the whole shooting match (all arches, the baseline OS, etc.), just the x86_64 updates repos you're interested in. And with 1TB drives costing $80USD (and you only need one on your local repo server), this is an issue? >> That's what we do. And we can add our own RPMs for local stuff to it. >> Get in contact with your internal google-fu and research "local rpm >> repo" for help in doing it. > > Not until I move to a Google fiber city, unfortunately. Downloading once to a local machine and having the other machines on the LAN use it as their repo or setting up a caching proxy like squid and having your machines use that as a proxy somehow increases your WAN bandwidth use? Maybe I'm not understanding what you're trying to accomplish here or what your restrictions are. Our local repo is a VM running under KVM on an old Dell R610 "utility" server we bought off eBay with two 500GB hard drives in a RAID1, 8GB RAM and 8 cores. The VM was given 300GB disk, 2GB RAM, two cores and runs a minimal Fedora server 23 (at the moment). It is a full repo for Fedora 21-23 (32- and 64-bit), CentOS 6 and 7 (both 32- and 64-bit) and serves over 300 client machines without even breaking a sweat. Hardware total: about $200USD. Took less than a day to set up. Polls the repos once a day to pick up updates. Simple. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - I won't rise to the occasion, but I'll slide over to it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
