Maintaining a local yum repository

[Martin Marques]

Craig White escribió:
> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 16:53 -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
>> Craig White escribió:
>>> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 14:45 -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
>>>> macgyver escribió:
>>>>> When I had two servers running Fedora2 and both my wife and I's
>>>>> workstation, and my laptop all running FC2 - what I did was get one of
>>>>> the servers to do an automatic update at say 02:00 - and do not delete
>>>>> the resultant packages...
>>>>>
>>>>> The resultant packages were then NFS shared to the rest of the systems
>>>>> as a background mount.....
>>>> Has anybody tried yam?
>>>>
>>>> http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/yam/
>>> ----
>>> yam is now mrepo
>>>
>>> It's awesome
>> Is there something that will just do proxy with cache and not mirror 
>> sync? I mean, just download what you're installing or updating to get 
>> cached in disk, not the whole repo.
>>
>> Something like a proxy. :-D
> ----
> in essence, all you need is a web server, the 'createrepo' package (to
> create the repodata directory) and a customized local.repo file in
> yum.repos.d
> 
> But in reality, after you install mrepo and configure (and it took, me a
> day or so to get everything that wasn't included on the DVD and all of
> 'updates' downloaded), the benefit is that it's always lightning quick
> to install/update because everything is local.

Craig, I quite understand the benefits of a synced mirror (we have them 
at work) but at home I don't have disk space to use. :-(