Caching updates locally

[Scott van Looy]

Today Benjamin Franz did spake thusly:

> 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.
>

Could you not set up squid on the gateway and then set yum to use a proxy?

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I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.