On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:41:32PM +0200, Harri Haataja wrote:
> I have a local one for the main and upgrades from somewhere plus my own
Olen ajatellut pystyttää itselleni lokaalin apt-varaston, kun Suomesta ei
tunnu löytyvän julkista peiliä. Osaisitko avittaa hiukan asiassa, eli
kuinka lähteä liikkeelle? Ensin kannattanee peilata varsinainen RH:n rpm:t
jostain, vaan millä softalla (rsync?) ja mistä (funet?) tuo kannattaa

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On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:33:29PM +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:41:32PM +0200, Harri Haataja wrote:
> > I have a local one for the main and upgrades from somewhere plus my own
> Olen ajatellut pystyttää itselleni lokaalin apt-varaston, kun Suomesta ei
> tunnu löytyvän julkista peiliä. Osaisitko avittaa hiukan asiassa, eli
> kuinka lähteä liikkeelle? Ensin kannattanee peilata varsinainen RH:n rpm:t
> jostain, vaan millä softalla (rsync?) ja mistä (funet?) tuo kannattaa
I'll post my own repository story here anyway, hope no-one minds.
It may freely be commented on or used in another text.
|       |-- RPMS.os -> <link to RH network install image>
I throw updates to current7's rpms and my own stuff (with makefile :) to
nice genbasedir -s --progress --topdir=$TOPDIR/ \
(for -s to work, you need to make release files, pinch someones for
This stuff is found under apache. I put that url, my keys and all that
into apt conf on the machines on the network and apt away.
As for .fi mirrors, funet is very slow. I think I use tuxfamily for
updates but when I see errata I usually also put that to my own one so
rest of the machines have a shorter path to it.
Funet hosts a whole load of mirrors and projects (it used to be (is?)
the main mirror for Linux. It was one of the big pub ftp sites). If
there was a definite apt repository, maybe they might mirror that as
well. I doubt RH would be very keen on using apt and forking a
distribution doesn't seem like an easy option, someone should just start
"Barry also was quick to point out that the Titanium uses torque screws as
opposed to Phillips screws. We're not sure why this matters even a little
bit, but Barry sure seemed to think it was interesting.
That's why Mac geeks scare us." 	-- ZDNet Powerbook Titanium review