Maintaining a local yum repository

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Thu Jan 31 20:14:52 UTC 2008


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).

Thomas




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