Sweet. That's all I needed to know. It sounds a lot simpler than the convoluted instructed on the freshrpms.net site that describes setting up an apt-get repository. Of course, I hadn't had time to try it out either. This looks to be a fun project next week (just as soon as I finish my dissertation). Thanks much. KJ On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 09:42, Hedemark, Magnus wrote: > Kerry Cox [mailto:kerry.cox@xxxxxxx] asks: > > > 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? > > It's cake. > > 1) Identify a Linux box to act as your repository server. > 2) Install ftp or http server software to grant clients access to your > repository. > 3) Install the yum suite on the server. > 4) Mirror the RPM's that you want to host. For example: > rsync -aqH --delete mirror.physics.ncsu.edu::redhat/linux/9/en/os/ > /local/path/to/redhat/9/base/ > 5) "yum-arch /local/path/to/redhat/9/base/" > 6) Share this path through ftp or http. Set up your yum clients to point to > this path.
