[WBEL-users] How Do I Set Up a Local Up2date Server?

[George Salt]

Uh, I just posted the question - Kirby provided the
instructions!

~GS
--- Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison@gmail.com> wrote:

> So...I tried the set of scripts/actions you
> recommended and things
> seem to work well.  I'm only syncing the updates so
> I only changed the
> "updates-released" server in my yum.conf.
> 
> The only odd behavior that I have is that my systems
> were previously
> pointed at the default yum servers and I had run
> updated them via yum
> a few days ago.  After doing the rsync and apache
> change and the
> yum.conf change and re-running yum check-update, I
> get many many
> packages which say that they need to be updated. 
> One on box I
> performed the update (yum -y update) and rebooted
> and everything seems
> to be fine.  But I'm a little confused why it wanted
> to update them at
> all.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any insight and thanks to
> George for the
> instructions for setting up a local server.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:21:08 -0500, Kirby C. Bohling
> <kbohling@birddog.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:19:40PM -0700, George
> Salt wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I've been running WBEL for a few weeks now.  I
> like
> > > it, and I'm planning to install it on a few more
> > > machines on my LAN.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to download all of the update
> rpms to
> > > one machine, and then use that machine as the
> up2date
> > > server for the other machines on my LAN?  If
> someone
> > > could point me to an existing HowTo doc, that
> would be
> > > great.
> > 
> > If all you want to do is duplicate an existing yum
> repository, (as
> > opposed to creating a new one from scratch).
> > 
> > If you know how to setup apache and run rsync,
> it's trivial.
> > 
> > I use this as my shell script, pick one of the two
> mirrors by
> > uncommenting "RSYNC_BASE".
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
>
#RSYNC_BASE="rsync://mirrors.esat.net/ftp/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/
> "
> >
>
#RSYNC_BASE="rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/whitebox/
> "
> > versionList="3.0"
> > 
> > for ver in $versionList
> > do
> >         for subdir in os updates
> >         do
> >                 echo "Fetching WhiteBox:
> /mirrors/whitebox/$ver/en/$subdir/"
> >                 mkdir -p
> /mirrors/whitebox/$ver/en/$subdir/
> >                 rsync -avr -P --delete
> $RSYNC_BASE/$ver/en/$subdir/. 
> /mirrors/whitebox/$ver/en/$subdir/.
> >         done
> > done
> > 
> > # EOF
> > 
> > That will duplicate the files to your local
> machine, in a path
> > looking like this:
> > 
> > /mirrors/whitebox/3.0/en/updates
> > 
> > Now, just setup Apache to allow access to that
> directory by doing
> > something like this in your config files:
> > 
> > <Directory "/mirrors">
> >     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
> >     AllowOverride None
> >     Order allow,deny
> >     Allow from all
> > </Directory>
> > 
> > Alias /mirrors "/mirrors"
> > 
> > <Directory "/mirrors/whitebox">
> >     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
> >     AllowOverride None
> >     Order allow,deny
> >     Allow from all
> > </Directory>
> > 
> > Just cron up the rsync script, and you should be
> good to go.  One of
> > the nice things about yum is that, it's very, very
> simple to mirror
> > an existing repository.  You can go ahead and
> create a new
> > repository using yum-arch, but I've never done
> that.
> > 
> > Now, "http://server.name/mirrors/whitebox " should
> serve up pages.
> > Once that's working, go change the baseurl lines
> in /etc/yum.conf to
> > point at the existing server, and you're done.
> > 
> > If you need more detail instructions, just ask,
> but that's the 5
> > minute version of how I did it.
> > 
> >         Thanks,
> >                 Kirby
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Whitebox-users@beau.org 
> > http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users 
> >
> 



		
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