On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 19:10 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2008 4:17 PM, Martin Marques <martin@marquesminen.com.ar> wrote:
> > > But in reality, after you install mrepo and configure (and it took, me a
> > > day or so to get everything that wasn't included on the DVD and all of
> > > 'updates' downloaded), the benefit is that it's always lightning quick
> > > to install/update because everything is local.
> >
> > Craig, I quite understand the benefits of a synced mirror (we have them
> > at work) but at home I don't have disk space to use. :-(
>
> 16GB?
I have everything from FC6 to today mirrored at home, 32 and 64 bit.
It's ~126 GB.
Luckily, 500GB drives are pretty cheap these days (last I checked Newegg
had them for about $109 with free shipping).
Thomas
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01-31-2008, 07:29 PM
Craig White
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On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:14 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 19:10 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On Jan 27, 2008 4:17 PM, Martin Marques <martin@marquesminen.com.ar> wrote:
> > > > But in reality, after you install mrepo and configure (and it took, me a
> > > > day or so to get everything that wasn't included on the DVD and all of
> > > > 'updates' downloaded), the benefit is that it's always lightning quick
> > > > to install/update because everything is local.
> > >
> > > Craig, I quite understand the benefits of a synced mirror (we have them
> > > at work) but at home I don't have disk space to use. :-(
> >
> > 16GB?
>
> I have everything from FC6 to today mirrored at home, 32 and 64 bit.
> It's ~126 GB.
>
> Luckily, 500GB drives are pretty cheap these days (last I checked Newegg
> had them for about $109 with free shipping).
----
you must have a LOT of 3rd party repos...
# ls -l fc6-i386/
total 1404
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 454656 Dec 9 00:31 extras
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:22 local
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 15 2007 os
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 853899 Oct 13 2006 os-comps.xml
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 102400 Dec 8 04:20 updates
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 29 2006 version
Craig
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01-31-2008, 07:29 PM
Craig White
Maintaining a local yum repository
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:14 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 19:10 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On Jan 27, 2008 4:17 PM, Martin Marques <martin@marquesminen.com.ar> wrote:
> > > > But in reality, after you install mrepo and configure (and it took, me a
> > > > day or so to get everything that wasn't included on the DVD and all of
> > > > 'updates' downloaded), the benefit is that it's always lightning quick
> > > > to install/update because everything is local.
> > >
> > > Craig, I quite understand the benefits of a synced mirror (we have them
> > > at work) but at home I don't have disk space to use. :-(
> >
> > 16GB?
>
> I have everything from FC6 to today mirrored at home, 32 and 64 bit.
> It's ~126 GB.
>
> Luckily, 500GB drives are pretty cheap these days (last I checked Newegg
> had them for about $109 with free shipping).
----
you must have a LOT of 3rd party repos...
# ls -l fc6-i386/
total 1404
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 454656 Dec 9 00:31 extras
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:22 local
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 15 2007 os
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 853899 Oct 13 2006 os-comps.xml
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 102400 Dec 8 04:20 updates
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 29 2006 version
Craig
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02-01-2008, 01:21 AM
Thomas Cameron
Maintaining a local yum repository
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:29 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:14 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 19:10 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > On Jan 27, 2008 4:17 PM, Martin Marques <martin@marquesminen.com.ar> wrote:
> > > > > But in reality, after you install mrepo and configure (and it took, me a
> > > > > day or so to get everything that wasn't included on the DVD and all of
> > > > > 'updates' downloaded), the benefit is that it's always lightning quick
> > > > > to install/update because everything is local.
> > > >
> > > > Craig, I quite understand the benefits of a synced mirror (we have them
> > > > at work) but at home I don't have disk space to use. :-(
> > >
> > > 16GB?
> >
> > I have everything from FC6 to today mirrored at home, 32 and 64 bit.
> > It's ~126 GB.
> >
> > Luckily, 500GB drives are pretty cheap these days (last I checked Newegg
> > had them for about $109 with free shipping).
> ----
> you must have a LOT of 3rd party repos...
>
> # du -sh f*
> 11G fc6-i386
> 7.2G fc7-i386
> 8.2G fc7-ppc
> 8.3G fc7-x86_64
> 4.2G fc8-i386
> 4.9G fc8-ppc
> 4.9G fc8-x86_64
>
> # ls -l fc6-i386/
> total 1404
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 454656 Dec 9 00:31 extras
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:22 local
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 15 2007 os
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 853899 Oct 13 2006 os-comps.xml
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 102400 Dec 8 04:20 updates
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 29 2006 version
But I do also have all the ISOs, so it gets a bit portly.
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02-01-2008, 01:36 AM
Craig White
Maintaining a local yum repository
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 20:21 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:29 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:14 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 19:10 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > > On Jan 27, 2008 4:17 PM, Martin Marques <martin@marquesminen.com.ar> wrote:
> > > > > > But in reality, after you install mrepo and configure (and it took, me a
> > > > > > day or so to get everything that wasn't included on the DVD and all of
> > > > > > 'updates' downloaded), the benefit is that it's always lightning quick
> > > > > > to install/update because everything is local.
> > > > >
> > > > > Craig, I quite understand the benefits of a synced mirror (we have them
> > > > > at work) but at home I don't have disk space to use. :-(
> > > >
> > > > 16GB?
> > >
> > > I have everything from FC6 to today mirrored at home, 32 and 64 bit.
> > > It's ~126 GB.
> > >
> > > Luckily, 500GB drives are pretty cheap these days (last I checked Newegg
> > > had them for about $109 with free shipping).
> > ----
> > you must have a LOT of 3rd party repos...
> >
> > # du -sh f*
> > 11G fc6-i386
> > 7.2G fc7-i386
> > 8.2G fc7-ppc
> > 8.3G fc7-x86_64
> > 4.2G fc8-i386
> > 4.9G fc8-ppc
> > 4.9G fc8-x86_64
> >
> > # ls -l fc6-i386/
> > total 1404
> > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 454656 Dec 9 00:31 extras
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:22 local
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 15 2007 os
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 853899 Oct 13 2006 os-comps.xml
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 102400 Dec 8 04:20 updates
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 29 2006 version
>
> No, no third party stuff.
>
> [root@ml110 fedora]# du -hs /var/www/html/pub/fedora/*
> 24G /var/www/html/pub/fedora/core
> 13G /var/www/html/pub/fedora/extras
> 67G /var/www/html/pub/fedora/releases
> 25G /var/www/html/pub/fedora/updates
>
> But I do also have all the ISOs, so it gets a bit portly.
----
ahhh - I use mrepo and it builds the 'core' packages from the CD/DVD
iso's by making links so you don't have to duplicate.
Maintaining a local yum repository
