Linux for sysadmins - creating your own offline repository
At some point in your sysadmin career you'll find yourself managing updates for a number of systems eventually you'll want to setup your own update repository to help you control third party and custom package installs and to lighten the load on your Internet connection. This is much like setting up your own WSUS server on a Windows network. Having done both I can tell you it's worth the effort once you get them setup.
http://linuxtechlab.com/offline-yum-repository-for-lan/
...and yes, I know WSUS was replaced by SCCM, but the last time I set one of those up it was still WSUS.
ReplyDeleteLast time I did this, I used a thing called "yam", but it looks like it's fallen by the wayside ( https://github.com/dagwieers/mrepo ) ... pity. I was easy to set up, & used yum to keep itself uptodate.
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