[rhn-users] local repository because of slow up2date?

["Dr. Günter Schmidt"]

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Paul Dekkers wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're starting to have more and more RH systems, and the thing I
> always find frustrating is the download-speeds I get with up2date.
> (I'm used to fast downloads for about everything else ;-)) Since I
> cannot use another public mirror (since there are none?) with RH, I
> wonder if it's possible to create my own.

One solution to speed up downloads is to do it for one system only.
And mark in up2date-config
not to delete the binary packages.
 Export the download directory, mount it on all other redhat systems
and configure those systems
to use the mounted directory.
Now the up2date will only download the header files and not the rpm
files again.

I have setup on the master machine a cron job at 4:00 with
    /usr/sbin/up2date-nox --update --install
and whenever I start 'up2date' interactive the files are already present.


Best Regards
 Günter



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