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

[DL Neil]

Aaron Trevena wrote:
> Hi GLLUGers
> 
> 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.


Hi Aaron,

I suspect I'm not smart enough to understand what you mean by 
"catalyst", or for that matter "smart".

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.

Don't have any locally-developed rpm packages to worry about - although 
I have been following recent PHP deployment methodology developments 
with some interest*.

At one time recently, whilst traveling-about I had no way to link my 
webdev machine to the Internet, so I had the convoluted work-flow of WAN 
rsync-ing the official repository to my laptop (which I could connect, 
at the local library), and LAN-loading from there into a Cobbler server, 
and thence...
(you don't have to be crazy to work here, but...)

What might your system do that Cobbler (and for that matter, other repo 
builders) doesn't?
How might it link to Puppet provisioning?
What of VM images?

Regards,
=dn
(with due regard to my ?narrow RHEL/CentOS mode of thinking)

* one idea amongst them being rpms - to include the entire environment, 
MySQL (for eg) and not just the PHP application
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