Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Hi
I'm thinking about setting up a local / LAN respository for my CentOS, and probably other (Fedora Core) disto's, but have never done it before, so here's some questions:
If I setup a repository, can it hold different distro's / architectures & versions? Say for example, CentOS 4 (i386 & x64), CentOS 5.0 & 5.1 (i386 & x64) - will each one have it's own folder? Will it also be possible to only download the packages that are needed, instead of the whole 4GB repository from the upstream provider? I have some of the CD's or DVD's for all of the distro's, so really only need a few packages now and then, and instead of getting them from the net everytime, get them from the LAN repository?
If the distros are from the same family, ie RHEL/CentOS/Fedora, then it is pretty safe to use 1 repo for the family.
You will need to separate the different architectures though i386/x86_64.
Then, how would I do this?
My repo directories are setup like such:
<Repo Name> +- SRPMS | +- i386 | +- RPMS | +- x86_64 +- RPMS
Then in i386 I run 'createrepo' (of course install createrepo first!), and in x86_64 I run 'createrepo'.
Then I just create a simple <Repo Name>.repo file /etc/yum.repos.d like such:
[Repo Name] name=Repo Name Packages for Linux baseurl=http://software/Software/Repo Name/Linux/$basearch enabled=1 priority=0 gpgcheck=0
I leave setting up Apache as an exercise in well, setting up Apache.
Hint: Setup mime type .rpm as text/plain otherwise rpm chokes.
Afterwards you could get fancy and create an RPM with the .repo file in it, and/or setup gpg keys for signing your RPMS.
-Ross
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