Ken Leyba wrote:

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.

Check out Yam. You can get it via yum from the rpmforge repository. It can automatically update the repos, create the headers, and it even comes with an Apache config file that you can use to serve the repos to your other machines.

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/