Comments on: How to Setup a Network Repository to Install or Update Packages – Part 11

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:05:10 +0000

In reply to Ricardo.

@Ricardo,

First you need to set proxy connection settings in your exports path as shown.

# export HTTP_PROXY=http://user:password@proxyhost:8080

Then you can tell that you want rsync to use below proxy settings for its traffic.

# RSYNC_PROXY=user:password@proxyhost:8080

You can modify the above command as per your proxy connection requirements (some do not need user/password)

Finally you run your rsync job.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 18:20:00 +0000

Hi, I need to pass rsync through a proxy server to get to the mirror, what should i do?

Thanks in advance

By: Anssi Johansson

Anssi Johansson — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:17:18 +0000

In reply to Bruno M. V. M. Salazar.

Nope, you get the repodata from the upstream mirror. There is no need at all to run createrepo.

By: Anssi Johansson

Anssi Johansson — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:15:56 +0000

Hi, I'm afraid your instructions are not correct. You must not use createrepo to create the repodata, but instead you should use the repodata you get from the mirror you sync from. If you create the repodata yourself, you will break the GPG signing of repomd.xml (see repomd.xml.asc). Please remove all references to "createrepo'". For those thinking of setting up a public CentOS mirror based on this blog posting, you should sync everything with one rsync command, and not by individual version or repository. In this case the -H (preserve hard links) rsync option would save you some bandwidth and hard disk space. Best regards, avij on behalf of the CentOS Linux Project.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 05:44:18 +0000

In reply to DINAKAR N K. @Dinakar, Please check this article: Integrate CentOS 7 to Active Directory.