Caching updates locally

[Benjamin Franz]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Joe Tseng wrote:

> I want to be able to cache yum updates locally so when I build machines via 
> kickstart I can have them update more quickly from a local server.  I can't 
> seem to recall how to do this using wget, and googling hasn't turned anything 
> up yet.  Does anyone know of some page that describes how to do this?  Thx.
>

My personal hack is set yum to cache (add 'keepcache=1' in /etc/yum.conf) 
before updating the first machine I build on a new distro. Then when I 
build the second or later machines I tarball up /var/cache/yum and drop it 
into the new machine before starting the first update. It isn't pretty, 
but as long you are working inside a single architecture it works like a 
champ.

-- 
Benjamin Franz

"It is moronic to predict without first establishing an error rate
  for a prediction and keeping track of one’s past record of accuracy."
                     -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By Randomness