bit off topic, but....
I've set up my first Centos gateway server and now setting up another server on internal network.
I thought it would be nice to use the gateway servers "/var/cache/yum" as a local repository for any internal servers since it would be up to date with the lastest packages and save bandwidth.
So... I created a sym link to create a repository through gateways http server, ie.
ln -s /var/cache/yum /var/www/html/yum
Now internally I can browse the gateways repository with no problem http://192.168.1.1/yum/addons
I've set the internal servers yum.conf to, ie.
[addons] name=Local - Addons baseurl=http://192.168.1.1/yum/addons/ gpgcheck=0
result....
yum list addons
Gathering header info Server: Local - Addons CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/addons Getting header info from server failover: baseURL = http://192.168.1.1/yum/addons/ failover: path = headers/header.info
and the just gets stuck there.
structure of gateways repostitory...
addons/headers/ addons/packages/ addons/header.info
ok,so seems yums looking for in the headers dir for the header.info when really in the addons dir. Tried creating s symlink in the headers dir ( ln -s ../header.info header.info) but no go.
Any tips, I'm sure I'm missing something simple? or maybe just can't do it how I want to.
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Ken Godee wrote:
bit off topic, but....
I've set up my first Centos gateway server and now setting up another server on internal network.
I thought it would be nice to use the gateway servers "/var/cache/yum" as a local repository for any internal servers since it would be up to date with the lastest packages and save bandwidth.
It will only contain those updates for packages that are installed on the system. And usually a gateway system only has a minimum set of packages.
If you look for an integrated solution, you could look at Yam:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
bit off topic, but....
I've set up my first Centos gateway server and now setting up another server on internal network.
I thought it would be nice to use the gateway servers "/var/cache/yum" as a local repository for any internal servers since it would be up to date with the lastest packages and save bandwidth.
It will only contain those updates for packages that are installed on the system. And usually a gateway system only has a minimum set of packages.
That's all I wanted.
If you look for an integrated solution, you could look at Yam:
I'll take a look, but I thought what I wanted to do would be do-able.
Ken Godee wrote:
bit off topic, but....
I've set up my first Centos gateway server and now setting up another server on internal network.
I thought it would be nice to use the gateway servers "/var/cache/yum" as a local repository for any internal servers since it would be up to date with the lastest packages and save bandwidth.
<snip>
It's a better idea to rsync the entire repo. You can do it with Dag Wieer's YAM, or just rsync.
Here's how I do it: ----------- /etc/cron.daily/rsynch.sh
#!/bin/bash
rsync -Pvptrl --delete rsync://rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/cAos/centos-3/3.3/os/i386/ /mirrors/CentOS/os/i386/ rsync -Pvptrl --delete rsync://rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/cAos/centos-3/3.3/updates/i386/ /mirrors/CentOS/updates/i386/ rsync -Pvptrl --delete rsync://rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/cAos/centos-3/3.3/addons/i386/ /mirrors/CentOS/addons/i386/ rsync -Pvptrl --delete rsync://rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/cAos/centos-3/3.3/extras/i386/ /mirrors/CentOS/extras/i386/ rsync -Pvptrl --exclude=SRPMS --delete rsync://apt.sw.be/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el3/en/i386/dag/ /mirrors/dag/ ---------- /etc/httpd/conf.d/mirrors.conf
Alias /mirrors "/mirrors"
<Directory "/mirrors"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from 192.168 127.0.0.1 </Directory> ---------
and then you point your yum.conf appropriately.
HTH,
Ben
I thought it would be nice to use the gateway servers "/var/cache/yum" as a local repository for any internal servers since it would be up to date with the lastest packages and save bandwidth.
<snip>
It's a better idea to rsync the entire repo. You can do it with Dag Wieer's YAM, or just rsync.
So do you just keep cleaning your yum cache?
Right now my yum cache is @ 312 meg which if I rsync'd the repo on the same machine I'd be doubling for the same files, correct, 624 meg. I also don't want the whole repo, just the packages that I'm using.
Arrggg, just thought it would be simple, heck just easier to keep all servers yum.conf's pointed to a Centos mirror.
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Benjamin J. Weiss -
Dag Wieers -
Ken Godee