createrepo question

[Michael A. Peters]

Aldo Foot wrote:
> Right now I'm running F8, kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8.
> 
> I've setup a local yum repository, which gets updated via a cron job.
> The log files show a number of newly downloaded updates.
> No updates were showing using only my local repo until I ran
> createrepo against the dir containing the base, updates and repodata
> directories.
> So, after a few days of no seeing anything now my system picked up 82
> new updates. That was good.
> 
> The question is:
> Do I need to run createrepo every time new updates are downloaded?
> Does createrepo need to update the metadata file for checksums and such?
> 
> ~af
> 

What do you use to mirror updates to local?
I use rsync with kernel.org - the updated repodata files get pulled in 
as well, I do not have to regenerate them.

I use rsync -avrt ${source} ${dest}