I've setup a local yum repository for about 25 workstations and I'm using rsync from a local mirror. Do I need to create my own XML headers, i.e. the 'repodata' directory, or since I'm syncing the whole updates directory can I use the 'repodata' directory from the mirror?

I also have a question on using createrepo. The directory layout is:

~/updates/ ~/updates/headers/ ~/updates/repodata/ ~/updates/RPMS/

If I do the following in the 'updates' directory:

# createrepo -v ./RPMS

The 'repodata' diretcory is created under the 'RPMS' directory and not the current 'updates' directory. How can I have the 'repodata' directory created/updated in the correct directory under 'updates'? Right now I'm manually moving the directory. I would probably need to do this in my daily cron job.

Thanks, Ken