Klaus Vink Slott wrote:
Hi
I do a lot of testing at home and experimenting so I often have something like 10 virtual installs with opensuse running. Up to recently I had a unofficial mirror for base and update repositories. A simple cron job every night used wget to sync my local repository. By configuring my vm's to use this local repository I avoided downloading the same file again for each vm, during repeated install experiments and system updates.
Now I am looking to replace my local mirror with something more flexible, so suggestions, best practice, pointers to examples is welcome. I not sure, but think that I'v seen a article on some Opensuse site, describing a solution based on nfs mounting the download directory on all hosts.
Currently I see 3 possibilities:
* continue to host a local mirror of selected repositories * configure some kind of nfs sharing between all hosts * add squid to my firewall
each has pros and cons as I see it.
Option 1 and 2 only differ in the access method - http:// or nfs://. I have used both 1 and 3. Setting up squid was the most complex, but once done it is fully independent & transparent. We have since switched to using a local mirror (as we also host a public mirror). There is no difference between the two except in amount of effort in setting it up. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.1°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org