Creating a local RPM repository

n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 at ntlworld.com
Fri Nov 6 17:38:57 UTC 2009


On 06/11/09 17:21, Mike Smith wrote:
> I am currently reviewing the possibility of allowing some of our
> employees to use Fedora on their machines instead of Windows.  On of my
> concerns is the bandwidth tied up by multiple machines downloading the
> same RPMs through our Internet gateway.  Is there a way to set up a
> local RPM repository on our internal networks so that the RPMs only have
> to be downloaded from the main repositories once.  All of our user
> machines would be configured to look at the local repository instead of
> the main one.
>  
> As an example, I set up two test system yesterday with FC11.  After the
> initial install, each machine needed to download significant amounts of
> updates.  I would have much preferred that they got those updates from a
> local source.  This would have reduced the bandwidth clog on our gateway
> (3MB bandwidth) and reduced the install time due to the updates coming
> from a local source (1GB bandwidth).
>  
> Any suggestions or instruction would be greatly appreciated.
>  
> Mike
> 

Mike,

There is an application called createrepo available which will create
the repo based on then RPMs in a directory. This should be a good place
to start. I've used it before with any problems.

JB




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