Maintaining a local yum repository

[Les Mikesell]

Martin Marques wrote:

>>> 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
>>

> 
>> Another method (also mentioned) is to nfs share your /var/cache/yum
>> dir.
> 
> IMHO, this is a crappy solution.

How so?  While I'd prefer yum to play nice with a caching proxy that 
might already be set up, file sharing seems like a reasonable way to 
share files...   If you already have a common network share it might 
work to copy one of the /var/cache/yum contents to it, then symlink all 
of them, avoiding the need to export a new shared directory.

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   Les Mikesell
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