Distribute Manjaro-updates to clients in network

[buongiorno]

Heyy,
I have multiple Linux clients in my network which regularly need updates (most of the distros are Manjaro).
Now, I don’t have the best internet here in Germany and I want to safe energy and bandwidth.
An idea I came up with is, to download Linux updates once for all the clients in network who needs them.

So I wonder, if there is a solution to distribute updates in my network, like (I think) the Windows WSUS solution does this, but i want it for linux.

I already searched in internet for some software or setup for this but no luck.
So if there is no developed solution for this, I’m sure anyways, it should be possible to setup a server which can distribute Linux updates…

Any ideas?

If there is no software solution

[bogdancovaciu]

Hello,

You create a custom mirror

[root tip] [How To] Create Manjaro mirror server

Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ Create a Manjaro mirror using Architect Manjaro Architect is well suited for creating custom installations and a custom installation is needed for running a mirror of Manjaro repo. Manjaro can benefit from more mirrors but please consider this before committing to run an official mirror. Prerequisites Internet connection A static IP address and a domain name with access to setting up DNS to point to your IP. It is possible to use dynamic DNS but it is not as reliable as a…

Share it over local network and add it to your clients

Custom software repositories and mirrors

You can add additional repositories in /etc/pacman.conf It is explained in the comments of that conf file how to do this: # REPOSITORIES # - can be defined here or included from another file # - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here # - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files # - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages # have identical names, regardless of version number # - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of …

[linux-aarhus]

WSUS is downloading updates for storage and then distribute the updates to the network.

The same can be done with Manjaro. The benefit is that you control when your local mirrorserver sync - and as such control the general state of the systems in the network.

There is an undocumented tweak using special build of pacman-mirrors you can apply to your systems which ensures your clients is always updating from your local mirror.