Re: Local Copy of Repository

On 07/10/2007, das <dasd.here@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Friends

I want to keep a local copy of the Fedora 7 repository, only the i386
branch. This will be updated in regular intervals, that I can break it
into DVD-s (or, even CD-s) and write them, and after installing F7 in a
machine, the 'yum' can be run on these DVD-s.

We run a kind of a local Linux club (GLT Madhyamgram) and some of us
don't have Internet Connection at all, or, a dial-up connection. So, for
all these friends, and me too, because the Net connection is not always
very good (this is a third world version of broadband) and so it takes
quite a lot of time for 'yum' to initialize after checking the mirrors.
Running 'yum' on a locally updated repository will save this time.

Now, can anyone please suggest a very simple way of doing this thing?
Remember I am no developer, just a teacher-writer involved in Linux. So,
something that I can work myself. For Ubuntu that thing is really there,
very simple instructions and that do work pretty well depending on
'debmirror' and 'debcopy'. I have done that myself, for our friends that
are using Ubuntu, and me too, before migrating to F7 due to Bangla
rendering problems in Ubuntu 7.04.

man reposync
reposync is included in the yum-utils package. Use createrepo to turn
the downloaded packages into a local Yum repository, which to offer in
your network.

Alternatively, create your own mirroring script based on rsync, lftp,
wget, curl, <insert other tools here> and simply copy regularly what
your favourite Fedora download server offers. Depending on how often
and accurately you do it, you may need to run "createrepo" yourself
appropriately.

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