Re: RPMForge mirror creation (yam?) howto?

Good afternoon, Neil,

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Neil Bird wrote:

>  I'm considering setting up a local [distro-specific] mirror of 
> FR/DAG/AT/etc.  I know this has been covered before, but now I come to look 
> for the details, I can't see anything obvious.
>
>  Is there a brief how-to for this anywhere?  Is it 'yam' I'm looking for? 
> Do I aim to mirror the repos. individually, or it there now a meta RPMForge 
> repo.?  Any ideas on how much space is needed?

 	Oops, missed that last bit.  Here are some sample sizes for 6 
recent distributions where I pull down all available modules for them. 
Keep in mind there are cross-distribution hardlinks so the total space 
requirement is less than the combined sizes.

[wstearns@sparrow yum]$ du -sh centos/linux/4.0/i386/ 
fedora/linux/{2,3,4}/i386/ mandrake/linux/10.2/i386/ 
whitebox/linux/4/i386/
2.7G    centos/linux/4.0/i386/
9.6G    fedora/linux/2/i386/
12G     fedora/linux/3/i386/
2.8G    fedora/linux/4/i386/
4.3G    mandrake/linux/10.2/i386/
4.1G    whitebox/linux/4/i386/

 	Cheers,
 	- Bill

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