mrepo mrepo (ex YAM) builds a local APT/Yum RPM repository from local ISO files.
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mrepo (ex YAM) builds a local APT/Yum RPM repository from local ISO files. It takes care of setting up the ISO files, downloading the RPMs, configuring HTTP access and providing PXE/TFTP resources for remote network installations.It was primarily intended for doing remote network installations of various distributions from a laptop without the need for CD media or floppies, but is equally suitable for an organisation's centralized update server.Doing a remote installation only requires a configured DHCP-server, the TFTP service and a Webserver configured with mrepo. Then boot your system using a PXE-enabled network card.For updating your local systems, configure either Smart, Apt, Yum or up2date and point them to your local mrepo server. Here are some key features of "mrepo": · Easy Yum-alike configuration · Supports mirroring using FISH, FTP, HTTP, RSYNC, SFTP and RHN · Supports Smart, Apt, Yum and up2date (as well as synaptic, yumgui and other derivatives) · Can download and distribute updates from RHN channels · Can work directly from ISO images (so you don't need extra diskspace to store ISOs or copy RPMs) · Supports Red Hat, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise (TaoLinux, CentOS) and Yellow Dog Linux out of the box · Will probably work with other RPM based distributions (feedback needed, please mail me) · Allows for remote network installation (using a PXE-enabled NIC on target systems) · Support for 3rd party repositories and vendor packages · Allows to maintain your own customized (corporate) repository · Allow for chaining mrepo servers in large organisations with remote sites · Can hardlink duplicate packages (to save precious diskspace) What's New in This Release: · Support for RHEL5 and CentOS-5. YaST Online Update support. · fuseiso support (root access no longer needed). unionfs support to merge ISOs to a single tree. · Faster relinking of repositories. · Caching of directory indexes to prevent regenerating repositories. · Proxy support for rhnget and gensystemid. · An rhnget --list option for searching packages. · An rhnget --filter option for selecting downloads. · An rhnget --source option for downloading SRPMs from RHN.

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