[plug] creating a repository

[Gavin Chester]

   >-----Original Message-----
   >From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au]On
   >Behalf Of Kev
   >Sent: Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:18
   >To: PLUG
   >Subject: [plug] creating a repository
   >
   >
   >Greetings PLUGgers (and other humanoids)
   >
   >Can someone perhaps point me at some guide or software or such-like so
   >that I can create my own local repository.  My aim is to create a small
   >repository on my local (home) network so that I only have to download
   >software once, and then others here at home can install from my local
   >repository.  I don't have any clue at this stage what makes a
   >repository, or how one is structured, so I need beginners' stuff.
   >

AS far as I remember:

Say, you're using yum, apt or whatever you'll find that the downloaded files
are cached on your local drive in /var/cache-something.  You can simply
never delete the files and headers from your cache and have all users point
their updater-of-choice to that directory on your drive when they are
configuring which repositories to use.  You'll have to give right
permissions, of course.  Alternatively, you can set another
common-to-all-users drive as your cache drive in the first instance rather
than it being on your own PC.  Anyway, it's something like that and not too
hard.  Just haven't looked at it for a while.

Gavin.