On Thu, Jan 13, 2011, Eli Billauer wrote about "[Haifux] Mirroring Fedora repositories for rainy days": > I'm running Fedora 12, and since I don't intend to upgrade, I thought I > should make a copy of the yum repositories, just so I will be able to > install whatever I'll need easily even in the longer term future. All > examples I've seen talk about saving internet bandwidth, not endurance > after phasing out.
Unless you're 100% sure that you really want to do this, I don't think you need to do this at all. If you look at http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-12&arch=i386 you'll see that dozens of mirrors still keep Fedora 12. If you look further back, Fedora 7 still has 5 mirrors, and Fedora Core 2 (more than 6 years old) still has 4 mirrors. For example, http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/ appear to be archiving all Fedora versions that ever existed, since 2003. Note, by the way, that you don't need to do anything special to your yum configuration to use these mirrors. The standard yum configuration used the aforementioned mirrorlist link to find all the available mirrors for your release. -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Jan 13 2011, 8 Shevat 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I used to work in a pickle factory, until http://nadav.harel.org.il |I got canned. _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux