Maintaining a local yum repository

[Derek Tattersall]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>
For me it is a less than optimal solution because one of the machines I 
am trying to keep up to date is a laptop. I do not want to make a habit 
of mounting any network drives on that machine that are necessary for 
it's function since it will be traveling and off the internal network 
quite a bit of the time. I would prefer a solution that degrades 
gracefully if the laptop is away from the home network.

I am not quite sure what the best answer is, but I have seen some good 
ideas here. It bears thinking on.

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Derek Tattersall                    tatters at newsguy.com