[CentOS] Using a local mirror?

[Jason Pyeron]

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> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Max Hetrick
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 21:18
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Using a local mirror?
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> Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > We have a rsync'ed copy of the centos distro.
> > We want to point our local machines at that, what is our next step?
> 
> Hi, Jason.
> 
> cd /etc/yum.repos.d
> 
> I'd make a backup of the original CentOS-Base.repo:
> 
> cp CentOS-Base.repo CentOS.Base.repo.org
> 
> Open CentOS-Base.repo in a text editor, vim, emacs, whatever.
> 
> Comment out all the mirrorlist's.
> 
> # mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/blah-blah-blah
> 
> Make sure all the baseurl's reflects your internal repo and are not
> commented out.
> 
> baseurl=http//your_internal_repo/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/

This will be my second try after trying to find a less invasive method like
proxying.

Right now when a machine pulls up mirrorlist.centos.org it will point to an
internal system, whose cgi behaves as such (expecting a scale issue here,
vlan based load...).

> 
> You should be ok to use yum then, so long as your paths are all good.
> This is how I do it, anyways. Other comments or procedures 
> are more than
> welcome.
> 
> Regards,
> Max
> 
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