[Centos] local yum repository

Thu Dec 23 18:49:26 UTC 2004
Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Ken Godee wrote:

> bit off topic, but....
> 
> I've set up my first Centos gateway server and now
> setting up another server on internal network.
> 
> I thought it would be nice to use the gateway servers
> "/var/cache/yum" as a local repository for any internal servers
> since it would be up to date with the lastest packages and save
> bandwidth.

It will only contain those updates for packages that are installed on the 
system. And usually a gateway system only has a minimum set of packages.

If you look for an integrated solution, you could look at Yam:

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

Kind regards,
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