How To Set up a Linux YUM Repository Server

by Daniel Hawk

Publisher: Daniel Hawk
Copyright: © 2005 © 2006 by Daniel Hawk Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United States
Edition: 3rd ed

Printed: 5 pages, 6" x 9", saddle-stitch binding, black and white interior ink

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This guide will help you set up a YUM repository server on a Linux machine so you can do automatic updates and regulate client updating.

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Pretty nice how-to manual
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25 Oct 2005 (updated 28 Dec 2005)
Older versions of yum (from FC1 and 2) need the structure created by yum-arch. There's no harm in leaving it in as long as there is the potential that FC1 or FC2 systems may use it. Both yum-arch and create-repo should be used, and they ARE in this manual as of the time I purchased this book, so it worked perfectly for my new (FC4,3) and old (FC2,1) systems.

I don't agree with the previous person's review. The book is not bad, perhaps not all-inclusive...but then again, what is?...
This article is way out of date (yum-arch depreciated)
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5 Sep 2005
I bought this book hoping to find some answers to my questions about how I should setup my YUM server to server out various releases of Redhat (i.e. RHEL3 ES updates 3 through 5, and RHEL4 ES and RHEL4 ES update 1). But did not find any answers and found that "How to set up a YUM repository Server" was very out of date and was still using "yum-arch" to initialize the YUM repo. database.
yum-arch has been replaced by createrepo which can be found here (http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/).

I would not had bought this book if I had know it was so out-of-date.
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