Ken Godee wrote:
> bit off topic, but....
>
> I've set up my first Centos gateway server and now
> setting up another server on internal network.
>
> I thought it would be nice to use the gateway servers
> "/var/cache/yum" as a local repository for any internal servers
> since it would be up to date with the lastest packages and save
> bandwidth.
<snip>
It's a better idea to rsync the entire repo. You can do it with Dag
Wieer's YAM, or just rsync.
Here's how I do it:
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/etc/cron.daily/rsynch.sh
#!/bin/bash
rsync -Pvptrl --delete
rsync://rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/cAos/centos-3/3.3/os/i386/
/mirrors/CentOS/os/i386/
rsync -Pvptrl --delete
rsync://rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/cAos/centos-3/3.3/updates/i386/
/mirrors/CentOS/updates/i386/
rsync -Pvptrl --delete
rsync://rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/cAos/centos-3/3.3/addons/i386/
/mirrors/CentOS/addons/i386/
rsync -Pvptrl --delete
rsync://rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/cAos/centos-3/3.3/extras/i386/
/mirrors/CentOS/extras/i386/
rsync -Pvptrl --exclude=SRPMS --delete
rsync://apt.sw.be/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el3/en/i386/dag/
/mirrors/dag/
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/etc/httpd/conf.d/mirrors.conf
Alias /mirrors "/mirrors"
<Directory "/mirrors">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from 192.168 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
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and then you point your yum.conf appropriately.
HTH,
Ben
