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, -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]