Re: question about network repositories

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On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
>  I'm thinking about setting up a local / LAN respository for my CentOS,
>  and probably other (Fedora Core) disto's, but have never done it before,
>  so here's some questions:
>
>  If I setup a repository, can it hold different distro's / architectures
>  & versions? Say for example, CentOS 4 (i386 & x64), CentOS 5.0 & 5.1
>  (i386 & x64) - will each one have it's own folder?
>  Will it also be possible to only download the packages that are needed,
>  instead of the whole 4GB repository from the upstream provider? I have
>  some of the CD's or DVD's for all of the distro's, so really only need a
>  few packages now and then, and instead of getting them from the net
>  everytime, get them from the LAN repository?
>
>  Then, how would I do this?

Easy way to do this would be to set up mrepo from rpmforge. It does
nearly all the dirty work for you.

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