create mirror repository for fedora

how to create a mirror repository for your local lan.

1. create a destination folder eg: /var/www/html/repo/
2. create subfolders for fedora eg: /var/www/html/repo/f15/x86_64/updates/repodata
3. download the files from repository to local folder. i use the following line to copy the files from an official repository, this may take a little time
   

   rsync -av –delete –exclude=debug rsync://mirror.ovh.net/download.fedora.redhat.com/linux/updates/15/x86_64/ /var/www/html/repo/f15/x86_64/updates/repodata/

4. create the informations for yum:
   

   createrepo /var/www/html/repo/f15/x86_64/updates/

5. configure apache to display the entries from /var/www/html/repo/
6. create the repo config on a client /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-cache.repo
   

   [cache-updates] name=Fedora $releasever – $basearch – Updatesfailovermethod=priority baseurl=http://reposerver.mydomain/repo/f$releasever/$basearch/updates/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0priority=10

7. try to reinstall an application or update
8. create a job with crontab to run the rsync command every day
   

   # min hour day month weekday user command # — update cacherepo 00 00 * * * /bin/nice -n 15 /root/scripts/update-repo.sh &>/dev/null

below i uploaded my configs for the daily job to mirror some different repos. this way should also work for centos.

files:

fedora-updates-cache.repo

update-repo.sh