[Gllug] Do many people use their own local repos/mirrors

[Ege Turgay]

I do all these by using spacewalk already on CentOS systems
(fedorahosted.org/spacewalk).

Ege


On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 09:15 +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:

> On 30 August 2010 06:55, DL Neil <GLLUG at getaroundtoit.co.uk> wrote:
> >> I'm working on a "smart mirror" catalyst web application and was
> >> wondering how many people use their own repos, mirrors and mini-cpans
> >> to get an idea of usage etc and if people would pay for somebody else
> >> to provide something like that for them, yes it'll be all or mostly
> >> open sourced, if it's successful I'd like to be able to provide some
> >> commercial services to cover the project development costs and/or
> >> subsidise my other open source coding.
> >
> > I suspect I'm not smart enough to understand what you mean by
> > "catalyst", or for that matter "smart".
> 
> Catalyst would be http://www.catalystframework.org/ a perl "MVC" framework.
> 
> "Smart" would be a nice web interface making it easy to categorise
> packages into virtual repos for dev, staging, test, live, etc and pull
> from multiple upstream repos, with the aim of providing a nice
> dashboard showing which upstream packages are available, upstream
> security fixes, and a nice audit trail.
> 
> > I maintain in-house repositories for CentOS rpms, just as others do for
> > Debian et-al's apt (etc); with the idea that the WAN download happens
> > once, but LAN distributions can initiate as many times as necessary (and
> > in whatever form is appropriate) without bandwidth charge.
> 
> That seems pretty common. I thought the management of which packages
> would be the main reason for people do it, but most responses have
> been about mirroring for faster/cheaper download.
> 
> I'm not sure how much it would be possible to integrate into upstream
> bug tracking, version control and puppet, etc
> 
> A.
> 
> -- 
> Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons
> http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk
> LAMP System Integration, Development and Consulting


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