I do this, and it's really easy. And like you said a custom channel is good if you have some special packages that you also maintain internally. -- Matt Shields http://masnetworks.biz/ http://www.caosity.org/ On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 05:27:25 -0500, Ed Clarke <clarke at cilia.org> wrote: > As a matter of policy and because I'm at the end of a DS/1 that needs to > feed > my customers needs, I've set up a local subset mirror of Centos 3.3. It's a > subset because I don't copy any of the x86_64 directories ( no machines that > use them ) but it's also a superset because I've added an additional "local" > directory structure that contains things that I need - amavis, clamav etc. > I can do "yum install amavisd-new" from any of my servers and have yum > install or update the packages that are needed. > > The advantage for everyone in doing this is that I don't have to use up my > DS/1 bandwidth for installs or updates of multiple machines and the mirrors > don't get hit with a dozen requests for the same file from one location. (I > was quite annoyed when the updated yum package wanked up my custom yum.conf) > An additional benefit to me is that updates to my real customer servers go > at a hundred megabit rate rather than the time it'd take to suck down a new > kernel or openoffice through a DS/1. > > I'd like to recommend that everyone with some kind of server farm do > this. The > local mirror doesn't have to be wonderful - mine is a 200mhz PPro > machine built > out of junked parts - all it has to do is serve FTP. You'll save money > in the > long run and reduce the cost to the donated mirrors. Someone pays for the > bandwidth, one way or the other. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >