Setting up a yum repository or something similar is something I have been meaning to do a long time. Are there any good texts out there that explain how? Any suggested HowTos or URLs? I checked the main yum page and though there are public repositories listed I am loathe to overtax them and our bandwidth with 50+ machines. A local repository would work nicely. I am a new convert to yum (moving over from apt-get) and figured this is probably the way to go seeing as how all our machines use Red Hat and will probably continue to use Fedora. Thanks. KJ On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 09:03, Hedemark, Magnus wrote: > Harvey J. Stein [mailto:hjstein@xxxxxxxxx] said: > > [stuff about downloading packages only once for multiple machines] > > There are two good ways to do this: > > 1) Create a local mirror of the yum repository on your LAN. For only two > machines this might be overkill. > 2) Set up a squid caching proxy, and bump up the values so it retains large > files (and lots of them). Point your yum clients through the squid proxy. > First machine to request a package downloads it over the Internet. > Subsequent clients grab it from cache. > > The second option requires less storage capacity on one server than a full > repository, and will automagically purge packages that are no longer needed. > If I were only doing 2 clients I'd give that option a try. > > --Magnus > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
