[FredLUG] Centralized yum repository?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 21:59 -0400, Peter Larsen wrote:
> If you have 10-20 fedora installations, or similar controlled by yum,
> is it possible to have ONE box do the external updates, and set the
> other boxes up to simply use the internal box for updates??
> 
> I was considering a mirror site of one of the distributions, however
> how do you manage the repository link that yum uses to get repository
> information??

There's about a gazillion ways to do this, but here's one set of ideas:

* Use the repo tools in yum-utils (e.g. reposync) to mirror the external
repositories to the selected server on your LAN
* Distribute a local-release RPM which builds on the fedora-release RPM
(and Provides: fedora-release and redhat-release) with its
own /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo definitions, pointing to the LAN server

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