Mirror URL for repository.

[Onmeac]

I have been looking into setting up a local repository for updates etc as we have an increasing number of fedora clients/servers.

Searching the web I found multiple how-to’s on how to accomplish this little project.
One thing that bothers me is that each how-to seems to refer to a “static URL” mirror for rsync to get the rpms.

Somehow this seems wrong to me, as you would be downloading from the same mirror all the time.

edit: changed text to clarify more

[William Haller]

The last I looked, yum-pull was a bit out of date on versions but it is easy to cut and paste to update when a new version hits. It's the basis for what we use here. We've modified the scripts in ways that make it less flexible (only pull one architecture at once, for example and eliminate a bunch of repositories we will never need) but make it much easier to update for new releases of Fedora or Centos. It's certainly worth a look. It includes the mirrorlist directly in the code and selects randomly from that list to pick a repository.

It's usually easiest to populate the directory from the DVD first to reduce the amount of data to download. I might also suggest that it could be faster to get things in place and then start the process with the next Fedora release so you don't have to pull down so many updates.

I have a checkmirror script in perl that tries to avoid downloading old stuff. The yum-pull code will exclude old rpms and not archive them locally as well, but it still downloads them once before excluding.