Private Fedora repository

[Frank]

Rodolfo Alcázar wrote:

>El mié, 08-12-2004 a las 12:54 -0500, Frank escribió:
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>>I'd like to have one of the machines maintain a repository of all 
>>updates and then point the others machines at this local repository.  
>>This will be good for me, and good for the public mirrors as well.
>>Can anyone point me to directions for how to do this?
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>1) Replicate your rpm files into a shared dir (can share by http,
>say /var/www/http/rpmfc3/). You can use wget to accomplish that.
>2) Create headers with # createrepo /var/www/http/rpmfc3/
>3) Update your clients yum files to point to that server (located
>on /etc/yum.repo)
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Thank you Rodolfo.  I've just read the man page for wget.  I've only 
used it for fetching single files, and I had no idea how powerful it 
really was.  I see that it even has the ability to limit the aggregate 
size of the transfer so that my provider doesn't throttle my 
throughput.  Fantastic!

I'm a little unclear on the header creation part of this.  I don't have 
a createrepo.  I'm assuming that this is a yum thing and I'll find it 
where yum is hosted.  (Will look for that).

But where do I put these headers?  And if I mirror a repository, won't I 
get headers from that repository somewhere in the tree that I've mirrored?

Thanks again for prompting me to read the wget man page.  I'm sure I'll 
find it a much more useful tool going forward.

Frank.