Maintaining a local yum repository
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Fri Feb 1 02:21:50 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:29 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:14 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 19:10 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > On Jan 27, 2008 4:17 PM, Martin Marques <martin at marquesminen.com.ar> wrote:
> > > > > But in reality, after you install mrepo and configure (and it took, me a
> > > > > day or so to get everything that wasn't included on the DVD and all of
> > > > > 'updates' downloaded), the benefit is that it's always lightning quick
> > > > > to install/update because everything is local.
> > > >
> > > > Craig, I quite understand the benefits of a synced mirror (we have them
> > > > at work) but at home I don't have disk space to use. :-(
> > >
> > > 16GB?
> >
> > I have everything from FC6 to today mirrored at home, 32 and 64 bit.
> > It's ~126 GB.
> >
> > Luckily, 500GB drives are pretty cheap these days (last I checked Newegg
> > had them for about $109 with free shipping).
> ----
> you must have a LOT of 3rd party repos...
>
> # du -sh f*
> 11G fc6-i386
> 7.2G fc7-i386
> 8.2G fc7-ppc
> 8.3G fc7-x86_64
> 4.2G fc8-i386
> 4.9G fc8-ppc
> 4.9G fc8-x86_64
>
> # ls -l fc6-i386/
> total 1404
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 454656 Dec 9 00:31 extras
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:22 local
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 15 2007 os
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 853899 Oct 13 2006 os-comps.xml
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 102400 Dec 8 04:20 updates
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 29 2006 version
No, no third party stuff.
[root at ml110 fedora]# du -hs /var/www/html/pub/fedora/*
24G /var/www/html/pub/fedora/core
13G /var/www/html/pub/fedora/extras
67G /var/www/html/pub/fedora/releases
25G /var/www/html/pub/fedora/updates
But I do also have all the ISOs, so it gets a bit portly.
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