Tuesday Tech Tip - Setting Up Offline Package Repositories

Each Tuesday, we will be releasing a tech tip video that will give users information on various topics relating to our Storinator storage servers.

In this week's video, Brett is back to talk to you about how to set up your own offline package repository.

What happens if you need to download installation files or updates for your operating system or other package files and don't have access to the internet OR you are air gapped for security reasons?

Well, you can create offline package repositories to allow syncing of files from the source in order to store them locally. Brett shows us how to do this with Rocky Linux, however, the process is much the same with any other RHEL based OS.

Be sure to watch next Tuesday, when we give you another 45 Drives tech tip

[LampJustin]

Just gotta say: I love dnf! It's much nicer than apt, although apt update is sooo much quicker than the reposyncing in dnf 😂 But I had it numerous of times where the ssh session was killed when running a dnf upgrade, while an apt based system would leave me with a broken install, dnf just carried along in the background ^^ Yeah I know that I should've been using tmux, but still

[oleksandrlytvyn]

Hello,
It's quite hard to see Terminal from YouTube at mobile phone.
Could you please make font size bigger in next sessions?

[mind_combatant]

i'd love to see how you do this with apt, i've just been using apt-mirror, but it sounds like there's another way, and i'd be interested to learn about it.

[nevoyu]

How much disk space should I keep reseved for the repository? I'm planning deploying this to my homelab and while space isn't tight, it's nice to know how much should be allocated.

[Ladida]

Is it just me or does Brett often look like he ad a rough night yesterday?