At Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:41:11 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Robert,
On 25 August 2010 14:24, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
The main problem is that yum is NOT well written to deal with a slow and *unreliable* dial-up interface -- it in fact behaves extremly
Grab a copy of a repository at work, copy it home and set up a local repository. Yum will be perfectly happy with the setup. Sample to rsync to mirrorservice.org:
My 'work' is at home (dialup). The local library is only good for about 1.5mbits/sec (about 150kbytes/sec). I don't have enough free disk space for a full repo on either my laptop or my desktop.
export RSYNCCMD="rsync -avP --delete" $RSYNCCMD rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.5/updates/x86_64/ /storage/centos/5.5/updates/x86_64/ $RSYNCCMD rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.5/updates/i386/ /storage/centos/5.5/updates/i386/