CentOS - Mar 2015 - Something like apt-cacher for CentOS/RHEL?

Hi,

For some time I've fiddled with Debian and Ubuntu LTS. There's one 
really nice feature for local networks: apt-cacher, a package proxy for 
APT.

My company is in the remote South French countryside, and more often 
than not, schools and public libraries only have some very limited 
Internet access with relatively low bandwidth, which can make the 
updating process very tedious. A package cache comes in very handy in 
such situation.

Do you know if something like this exists for RPM-based distributions?

Cheers,

Niki
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On 3/6/2015 10:51 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
>
> For some time I've fiddled with Debian and Ubuntu LTS. There's one 
> really nice feature for local networks: apt-cacher, a package proxy 
> for APT.
>
> My company is in the remote South French countryside, and more often 
> than not, schools and public libraries only have some very limited 
> Internet access with relatively low bandwidth, which can make the 
> updating process very tedious. A package cache comes in very handy in 
> such situation.
>
> Do you know if something like this exists for RPM-based distributions? 
I maintain a local mirror of the centos repository with a simple lftp 
script, and configure my clients to get updates from this mirror via the 
/etc/yum.repos.d files....

my update_morror.sh script that gets run daily from a crontab

    #!/bin/sh
    /usr/local/bin/lftp -c 'open ftp://mirrors.sonic.net && lcd
    /mnt/zbig/mirror && mirror --continue --verbose=1 -x ia64 -x s390 -x
    s390x -x alpha -x SRPMS centos'


If you use this, replace ftp://mirrors.sonic.net with a mirror well 
connected to your ISP, chosen from http://www.centos.org/download/mirrors/


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Dnia sobota, 7 marca 2015 12:16:14 AM John R Pierce pisze:
> I maintain a local mirror of the centos repository with a simple lftp
> script, and configure my clients to get updates from this mirror via
> the /etc/yum.repos.d files....
 
And why not rsync?

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Hello,

It looks like apt-cacher-ng can deal with RPMs, says a quick search:
http://blog.hudecof.net/posts/2014/08/15/apt-cacher-ng-and-remap.html

If that doesn't work you could try more traditional ways of caching content
like squid or Apache mod_proxy/cache.
http://serverascode.com/2014/03/29/squid-cache-yum.html

HTH
Lucian

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Niki Kovacs" <info at microlinux.fr>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Saturday, 7 March, 2015 06:51:41
> Subject: [CentOS] Something like apt-cacher for CentOS/RHEL?
> Hi,
> 
> For some time I've fiddled with Debian and Ubuntu LTS. There's one
> really nice feature for local networks: apt-cacher, a package proxy for
> APT.
> 
> My company is in the remote South French countryside, and more often
> than not, schools and public libraries only have some very limited
> Internet access with relatively low bandwidth, which can make the
> updating process very tedious. A package cache comes in very handy in
> such situation.
> 
> Do you know if something like this exists for RPM-based distributions?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Niki
> --
> Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres
> 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat
> Web  : http://www.microlinux.fr
> Mail : info at microlinux.fr
> T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32
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> For some time I've fiddled with Debian and Ubuntu LTS. There's one
> really nice feature for local networks: apt-cacher, a package proxy
> for APT.
> 
> My company is in the remote South French countryside, and more often
> than not, schools and public libraries only have some very limited
> Internet access with relatively low bandwidth, which can make the
> updating process very tedious. A package cache comes in very handy in
> such situation.
You can also enable keepcache in /etc/yum.conf on one of the servers and 
after update copy rpms from /var/cache/yum to a (higher priority) local 
repository. You'll need to use createrepo to generate metadata for the 
repo.

HTH