On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Larry Brigman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:19 PM, website reader > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has built a network source >> repository server and upgrades their systems via a LAN, and does NOT >> rely upon online updates to speak directly to the client machine. >> >> I have several systems that I have to recreate from scratch, and wish >> to set up a source repository to assist that task, but I've never done >> this before. >> >> Your advice, experience, tips are welcome. I would appreciate hearing >> the pros/cons and pitfalls and advantages of this type of software >> maintenance. > > I have set this up for our systems here at work. I setup one machine to > run cron daily as the repo sync process but have all the internal machine > point to the local repository. Most have to do that since most of the > internal > machines don't have internet access. > > I use cron, wget or reposync depending on which site I pull files from. > After pulling files with wget I just use the createrepo program to turn > my directory into a repository and share everything via http. >
Another thing, that is somewhat related. I have a bunch of lab machines that people use to test various pieces of software. We also use a pxeboot install process that allows use to easily re-install a machine from scratch. I'm using Redhat/Centos/Oracle distros and create a kickstart file for the various types of installs that we do on a regular basis. This makes re-creating a system very quick and easy. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
