On 3/6/2015 10:51 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
>
> For some time I've fiddled with Debian and Ubuntu LTS. There's one
> really nice feature for local networks: apt-cacher, a package proxy
> for APT.
>
> My company is in the remote South French countryside, and more often
> than not, schools and public libraries only have some very limited
> Internet access with relatively low bandwidth, which can make the
> updating process very tedious. A package cache comes in very handy in
> such situation.
>
> Do you know if something like this exists for RPM-based distributions?
I maintain a local mirror of the centos repository with a simple lftp
script, and configure my clients to get updates from this mirror via the
/etc/yum.repos.d files....
my update_morror.sh script that gets run daily from a crontab
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/lftp -c 'open ftp://mirrors.sonic.net && lcd
/mnt/zbig/mirror && mirror --continue --verbose=1 -x ia64 -x s390 -x
s390x -x alpha -x SRPMS centos'
If you use this, replace ftp://mirrors.sonic.net with a mirror well
connected to your ISP, chosen from http://www.centos.org/download/mirrors/
--
john r pierce 37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast