Re: Managing fedora installations behind firewall

2011-03-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Richard Shaw wrote: > >> I setup a "local" repo on my desktop computer that I copied all of the >> DVD provided packages (and some others I've build myself) to. I don't >> worry about making the other computers on my home network ONLY use my

Re: Managing fedora installations behind firewall

2011-03-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Richard Shaw wrote: > I setup a "local" repo on my desktop computer that I copied all of the > DVD provided packages (and some others I've build myself) to. I don't > worry about making the other computers on my home network ONLY use my > local repo so I just add a repo config file pointing to my

Re: Managing fedora installations behind firewall

2011-03-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:35 AM, andreas palsson wrote: [SNIP] > Last, how can I make a package which users can simply install to point their > machines to update from the above mentioned server only, and remove the > other install sources? I only manage my home environment so I can't answer most

Re: Managing fedora installations behind firewall

2011-03-23 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 10:35 +0100, andreas palsson wrote: > Due to security, none of these machines have access to Internet. > > Now to the question; how to keep all those machines up to date with > the latest packages? > > First, I imagine I have to set up a complete package repository. > Using t

Re: Managing fedora installations behind firewall

2011-03-23 Thread Jonathan Underwood
On 23 March 2011 09:35, andreas palsson wrote: > Hello. > > Imagine a fairly large network, with from 50-100 workstations running > Fedora. > Due to security, none of these machines have access to Internet. > > Now to the question; how to keep all those machines up to date with the > latest packag

Managing fedora installations behind firewall

2011-03-23 Thread andreas palsson
Hello. Imagine a fairly large network, with from 50-100 workstations running Fedora. Due to security, none of these machines have access to Internet. Now to the question; how to keep all those machines up to date with the latest packages? First, I imagine I have to set up a complete package re