Local cache / 'repo' of updates and added RPM's

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 23:32:48 +0530,
  Jay Mistry <jaylinux53 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had to re-install Fedora 10 on a home desktop PC. In regard to this:
> 
> Is it possible to have a local cache/ "repository" of all
> 1) Updates (Critical, Security, Bug-fixes), and
> 2) Additional installed rpm's (that were installed through PackageKit), e.g.
> Opera, Adobe Reader, etc.
> so that I do not have to download all those again (800 MB + D/L)

Sure. Just put the rpms of interest in a directory, run createrepo on the
directory and set up an appropriate repo description in
/etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo for some value of *.

For myself I usually mirror the relevant arch parts of updates and
updates-testing and only put a few special things in a local repo.