On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:36 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > JohnS wrote: > > Or did you mean your repo? BTW article seems to be nice be I would just > > mirror base extras updates and addons and not the dvds > > > > [root at koala ~]# yum search "reposync" > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > * extras: ftp.plusline.de > * base: archive.cs.uu.nl > * addons: archive.cs.uu.nl > ============================== Matched: reposync > =============================== > yum-utils.noarch : Utilities based around the yum package manager > > > its in yum-utils, thats hosted in the [os] dir, reposync works for > centos-3/4/5 and since it uses the internal yum setup, you can make it > do quite nice things like share a cache for X local install setups and > also use it to keep repo's in real sync without needing to get every > package that is hosted in the repo. Also, works well for include / > exclude segments so you can easily ( and in a more yum friendly manner ) > manage the package set. > > With a bit more creativity, its possible to use that and squid to setup > an avahi based lan area zeroconf yum mirror with failback to remote urls > if required. > > I seriously doubt I'll have the time to sit and actually writeup an > article on this - but I'd be happy to point people in some directions or > maybe we can setup a shared screen session + voice and do a demo. > > - KB --- Cool, thanks Karan. Sound like what I am looking for (real time synchronization). I didn't know it was in the yum-utils package.Didn't know it existed until your mention of it also. "reposync -n --repoid=updates" Is what I am looking for. It will sync only the newest package updates. That really saves a lot of work on my end. Thanks for pointing it out. :-) JohnStanley