Creating a local Fedora repository is a great way to conserve bandwidth. You can update all of the computers on your local network from one repository.<\/p>\n
1)\u00a0 Install a web server.\u00a0 I use apache.
\nsu -c yum install httpd -y<\/p>\n
2)\u00a0 Create the directories that become the local repository.
\nsu -c mkdir -p \/var\/www\/html\/yum\/F15\/releases
\nsu -c mkdir -p \/var\/www\/html\/yum\/F15\/updates<\/p>\n
3) Install the remote synchronization tool rsync.
\nsu -c yum install rsync -y<\/p>\n
4) Use rsync to populate your repository.
\n\/usr\/bin\/rsync -avrt rsync:\/\/linux.mirrors.es.net\/fedora\/linux\/updates\/15\/x86_64\/ –exclude=debug\/ \/var\/www\/html\/yum\/F15\/updates
\n\/usr\/bin\/rsync -avrt rsync:\/\/linux.mirrors.es.net\/fedora\/linux\/releases\/15\/Everything\/x86_64\/os\/Packages\/ \/var\/www\/html\/yum\/F15\/everything<\/p>\n
I create a cron job for the rsync process. The following synchronizes daily.
\nsu -c touch \/etc\/cron.daily\/rsyncfedora15.cron
\nsu – gedit \/etc\/cron.daily\/rsyncfedora15.cron<\/p>\n
Paste the 3 lines of code below into the rsyncfedora15.cron file. Then save the file. The first time the repository synchronizes it may take considerable time and bandwidth.\u00a0 Be patient for the process to complete.<\/p>\n If you do NOT plan to make a full mirror of an existing Fedora repository you should use the createrepo tool to create and populate the data files and directories correctly. Then Now you have created the repository for Fedora 15.<\/p>\n Next I create files in my\u00a0 \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/\u00a0 called local.repo and localupdates.repo<\/p>\n local.repo has the following in it:<\/p>\n [local] localupdates.repo:<\/p>\n [local-updates] Then I copy those two files to all of my systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Creating a local Fedora repository is a great way to conserve bandwidth. You can update all of the computers on your local network from one repository. 1)\u00a0 Install a web server.\u00a0 I use apache. su -c yum install httpd -y 2)\u00a0 Create the directories that become the local repository. su -c mkdir -p \/var\/www\/html\/yum\/F15\/releases su… Continue reading Howto: create a local repository for Fedora.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,12],"tags":[76,91,127,156,160],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-howto-2","category-software","tag-fedora","tag-howto","tag-mirror","tag-repository","tag-rsync","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n#!\/bin\/bash
\n\/usr\/bin\/rsync -avrt rsync:\/\/linux.mirrors.es.net\/fedora\/linux\/updates\/15\/x86_64\/ --exclude=debug\/ \/var\/www\/html\/yum\/F15\/updates >> \/var\/log\/rsync15updates.log
\n\/usr\/bin\/rsync -avrt rsync:\/\/linux.mirrors.es.net\/fedora\/linux\/releases\/15\/Everything\/x86_64\/os\/Packages\/ \/var\/www\/html\/yum\/F15\/everything >> \/var\/log\/rsync15.log<\/code><\/p>\n
\nThis also creates and appends two log files rsync15update.log and rsync15.log in the \/var\/log directory.<\/p>\n
\nsu -c yum install createrepo<\/p>\n
\nsu
\ncreaterepo -v -p -d –deltas \/var\/www\/html\/yum\/F15\/everything<\/p>\n
\nname=Fedora $releasever – $basearch
\nfailovermethod=priority
\nbaseurl=http:\/\/192.168.1.100\/yum\/F15\/everything\/i686\/
\n#mirrorlist=https:\/\/mirrors.fedoraproject.org\/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
\nenabled=1
\nmetadata_expire=7d
\ngpgcheck=1
\ngpgkey=file:\/\/\/etc\/pki\/rpm-gpg\/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch<\/p>\n
\nname=Fedora $releasever – $basearch – Updates
\nfailovermethod=priority
\nbaseurl=http:\/\/192.168.1.100\/yum\/F14\/updates\/i686\/
\n#mirrorlist=https:\/\/mirrors.fedoraproject.org\/metalink?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
\nenabled=1
\ngpgcheck=1
\ngpgkey=file:\/\/\/etc\/pki\/rpm-gpg\/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch<\/p>\n