On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Bruno Wolff III <br...@wolff.to> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 23:32:48 +0530, > Jay Mistry <jaylinu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I had to re-install Fedora 10 on a home desktop PC. In regard to this: >> >> Is it possible to have a local cache/ "repository" of all >> 1) Updates (Critical, Security, Bug-fixes), and >> 2) Additional installed rpm's (that were installed through PackageKit), e.g. >> Opera, Adobe Reader, etc. >> so that I do not have to download all those again (800 MB + D/L) > > Sure. Just put the rpms of interest in a directory, run createrepo on the > directory and set up an appropriate repo description in > /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo for some value of *. > > For myself I usually mirror the relevant arch parts of updates and > updates-testing and only put a few special things in a local repo. In addition, there is a yum plugin that may serve the same function: yum-plugin-local > > When this plugin is installed it will automatically copy all downloaded > packages to a repository on the local file system, and (re)build that > repository. This means that anything you've downloaded will always exist, > even if the original repo removes it (and can thus. be > reinstalled/downgraded/etc.). > Have just installed it. Jay -- Linux User 483705 @ http://counter.li.org/ (Linux Counter)
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