Re: Maintaining my own copy of UPDATES

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:

> James Antill wrote:
>> "Joe_Wulf" <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>> I have a 32bit and 64bit systems running RHEL5, with internal VMs 
>>> operating with
>>> CENTOS5.
>>> What I'd like to do is keep my own copy of updates for each release (both 
>>> RHEL
>>> and CENTOS)
>>> in a local repo for updating future builds.
>>> 
>>> What is the process for doing this?
>>
>>  reposync is the normal way to do it. Also you might want to look at:
>> 
>> http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching
>
> None of which are particularly desirable.  There has to be some clever way to 
> make yum work reasonably with a standard caching proxy in spite of the effort 
> mirrorlists make to defeat their usefulness.

Don't use the mirrorlist, then.

Or setup Intelligent Mirror.

-sv