Lorenzo wrote:
So mrepo and PXE boot are really nice and funny, but they don't solve at all my need of bandwidth saving.
Why don't you create your own repo mirror? That's what I used to do, works pretty well.
Just pick a file server with enough disk space, mirror a whole repo once (*), then point all your systems to the internal mirror. The mirror is polling external repos once a day or something like that and only transfers files when something new comes up. IIRC, lftp can do that out of the box.
(*) - the base repo does not have to be mirrored (downloaded), you can probably reconstruct it from the install CDs / DVD. You only have to download the updates repo, and even that only once.
The internal repo mirror is a classic solution that works fairly well in many cases.
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