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== Make your HDA a Local Fedora and RPMFusion Free/NonFree Updates Repo ==
If you have multiple machines to update in your network, this may be ideal for you.  It will allow you to use your HDA as a local Fedora/RPMFusion Updates repository (hereafter referred to as <strong><em>repo</em></strong>).  This was developed on Fedora 12 platform.

Once the initial setup is complete, all repos will be updated nightly with any changes automatically.  Then whenever you do an update to your HDA or Fedora clients, packages will be pulled from your HDA versus a Fedora mirror over the internet.


<strong>NOTE:</strong> Requires a large amount of free disk space.  For example, if you want to maintain 32-bit packages local, it may take up to 30GB of drive space for Fedora, RPMFusion Free and NonFree repos.

=== Initial Repo Setup ===
This setup only needs to be done once.  This will set up structure for all repos built for your HDA.
* Enable Advanced Settings in the Amahi Dashboard (Settings-->Settings)
* Create a web app called <strong>repo</strong> using the Amahi Dashboard (Applications-->Web App)
* Open a terminal window and become <strong>root</strong> user:
{{Code|su -}}
* If you want the URL  <strong><nowiki>http://repo</nowiki></strong> available immediately, restart hdactl:
{{Code|service hdactl restart}}
* Generate <strong>index.html</strong> (OPTIONAL) to allow repo packages to be viewed via web browser):
{{Code|cd /var/hda/web-apps/repo/html
vi index.html}}
and add the following:
{{Text|Text= <html>
<nowiki><UL></nowiki>
<nowiki><LI></nowiki><A HREF="f12">f12</A>
<nowiki></UL></nowiki>
</html>}}
* Make directory to hold all repo files, then create symbolic link to the directory:
{{Code|mkdir -p /var/hda/files/yum/f12
cd /var/hda/web-apps/repo/html
ln -s /var/hda/files/yum/f12}}
* If you locate the files in a different tree, you will need the appropriate permissions.  This is especially important if you build the tree by extracting from a .iso file using Nautilus.  Change to a point in the tree and use:
{{Code|<nowiki>find . -type d | xargs chmod 755</nowiki>}}
* Disable current Fedora/RPMFusion Update repos for your HDA, then invoke local repo (Skip last 2 lines if RPMFusion repos <strong>NOT</strong> installed):
{{Code|sed -i 's/enabled<nowiki>=</nowiki>1/enabled<nowiki>=</nowiki>0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
sed -i 's/enabled<nowiki>=</nowiki>1/enabled<nowiki>=</nowiki>0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
sed -i 's/enabled<nowiki>=</nowiki>1/enabled<nowiki>=</nowiki>0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo}}

=== Fedora Base OS Repo Configuration (Optional) ===
For this example, we will be doing the Fedora Base OS for 32-bit.
* Make directory to hold all Fedora i386 base os:
{{Code|mkdir -p /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/os}}
* Build the OS tree
<blockquote>a. From the Fedora DVD:
{{Code|cp -a /mount/..../* /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/os}}
b. From the DVD iso:
{{Code|mkdir -p /mnt/iso
mount -o loop .../Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/iso
cp -a /mnt/iso/* /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/os
umount /mnt/iso}}
c. From the CD isos (Note that the CD #1 can be used for a network install, see below):
{{Code|mkdir -p /mnt/iso
mount -o loop .../Fedora-12-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/iso
cp -a /mnt/iso/* /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/os
umount /mnt/iso}}
{{Code|mount -o loop .../Fedora-12-i386-disc2.iso /mnt/iso
cp -an /mnt/iso/* /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/os
umount /mnt/iso}}
... (continue with the other CD isos)</blockquote>

=== Fedora Updates Repo Configuration ===
For this example, we will be doing Fedora Updates for 32-bit.  It can be adapted for 64-bit by changing all occurrences of <strong><em>i386</em></strong> to <strong><em>x86_64</em></strong>.  You may want to use one of the rsync mirrors listed [[http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org here]].  If so, replace all occurrences of <strong><em>rsync://mirrors.kernel.org</em></strong> with the new mirror.

* Make directory to hold all Fedora i386 Updates:
{{Code|mkdir -p /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/updates}}

* Download Fedora i386 Updates from repo mirror (may take a while):  
{{Code|rsync -avrt --delete --exclude<nowiki>=</nowiki>debug/ --exclude<nowiki>=</nowiki>drpms/ rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/12/i386/ /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/updates}}

* Build local repo structure index:
{{Code|yum -y install createrepo
createrepo /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/updates}}

* Generate <strong>fedora-updates-i386.repo</strong> (point to your HDA local repository):
{{Code|vi /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-i386.repo}}
and add the following:
{{Text|Text=[fedora-updates-i386-local]
name=Fedora f12 - i386 - Updates
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=<nowiki>http://repo/f12/i386/updates</nowiki>
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0}}

* Schedule nightly task to synchronize (downloads new updates) Fedora mirror with HDA repo.  This will only download new udpates to your HDA, so it shouldn't take long. Recommend you stagger scheduled time for each repo added by 1 hour.:
{{Code|crontab -e}}
and add the following line:
{{Text|Text= 0 1 * * *    rsync -auv --delete --exclude=debug/ --exclude=drpms/ rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/12/i386/ /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/updates}}

* Refresh repo list.
{{Code|yum clean all}}

* All Fedora i386 Updates will now be retrieved locally from your HDA.

=== Installing Fedora Using your Repo Server ===
For a speeder Fedora install from your Repo server that is not prone to DVD or CD read errors (and will install up to the current update level!).

* Boot from either the Fedora DVD or CD #1.  When presented with the install choices menu, press tab and append to the boot line:
{{Text|Text=askmethod}}
* When you get to the method screen, select URL and enter your repos base OS URL:
{{Link|http://repo/f12/i386/os}}
* When you reach the repositories page you can select the Update repository and point it to:
{{Link|http://repo/f12/i386/updates}}

=== RPMFusion Updates Repo Configuration ===
<strong>NOTE:</strong>  Amahi RPM Fusion Free and/or NonFree app <strong>MUST BE</strong> installed.  

For this example, we will be doing RPMFusion Free updates for 32-bit.  It can be adapted for NonFree by changing all occurrences of <strong><em>free</em></strong> to <strong><em>nonfree</em></strong> and/or to 64-bit by changing all occurrences of <strong><em>i386</em></strong> to <strong><em>x86_64</em></strong>.

* Make directory to hold all RPMFusion Free i386 Updates:
{{Code|mkdir -p /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/rpmfusion/free/updates}}

* Download RPMFusion Free Updates from repo mirror (may take a while):  
{{Code|rsync -avrt --delete --exclude<nowiki>=</nowiki>debug/ --exclude<nowiki>=</nowiki>drpms/ rsync://download1.rpmfusion.org/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/12/i386/ /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/rpmfusion/free/updates}}

* Build local repo structure index:
{{Code|createrepo /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/rpmfusion/free/updates}}

* Generate <strong>fedora-rpmfusion-free-updates-i386</strong> (point to your HDA local repository):
{{Code|vi /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rpmfusion-free-updates-i386.repo}}
and add the following:
{{Text|Text=[fedora-rpmfusion-updates-i386-local]
name=Fedora 12 - RPMFusion - free - i386 - Updates
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=<nowiki>http://repo/f12/i386/rpmfusion/free/updates</nowiki>
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0}}

* Schedule nightly task to synchronize (downloads new updates) RPMFusion mirror with HDA repo.  This will only download new udpates to your HDA, so it shouldn't take long. Recommend you stagger scheduled time for each repo added by 1 hour.:
{{Code|crontab -e}}
and add the following line:
{{Text|Text=0 3 * * *    rsync -auv --delete --exclude=debug/ --exclude=drpms/ rsync://download1.rpmfusion.org/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/12/i386/ /var/hda/files/yum/f12/i386/rpmfusion/free/updates}}

* Refresh repo list.
{{Code|yum clean all}}

* All RPMFusion Free i386 Updates will now be retrieved locally from your HDA.

=== Client Repo Setup ===
This will need to be completed on each Fedora 12 Client in your network.

* Disable current Fedora/RPMFusion Update repos for client, then invoke local repos (Skip last 2 lines if RPMFusion repos <strong>NOT</strong> installed):
{{Code|sed -i 's/enabled<nowiki>=</nowiki>1/enabled<nowiki>=</nowiki>0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
sed -i 's/enabled<nowiki>=</nowiki>1/enabled<nowiki>=</nowiki>0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
sed -i 's/enabled<nowiki>=</nowiki>1/enabled<nowiki>=</nowiki>0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
yum clean all}}

=== Third Party Application ===
This is application that allows you to maintain your own local repo server.  It is currently set for CentOS but can be modified for Fedora.  See [http://www.dotsharp.com.br/softwares/yum-repo-sync-english.html yum-repo-sync] for more info.