Re: Yum Problem

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 21:39 -0600, John Pierce wrote:
> >
> > This doesn't directly address the issue, but how about using rsync to
> > maintain a local mirror of the updates area, exporting that via NFS, and
> > then pointing to that via a file:/// url in your updates repo conf?
> >
> Well, I have considered that, but I do not want to waste the bandwidth on both
> my end and the update server end.  I would much prefer that someone else
> get to use that bandwidth for update they need, I see no reason to bottleneck
> the network by downloading packages that I do not need.
> 

Take a look at the 'instant mirror' work going on in fedora right now to
help exactly your situation.

-sv