On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> 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? > > Then, how would I do this? Easy way to do this would be to set up mrepo from rpmforge. It does nearly all the dirty work for you. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell