On 4 April 2010 15:36, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, john maclean wrote: > >> Chaps, >> >> Is cobbler overkill or is it simpler to set up a local repo and >> rsync it with a mirror? > > Personally, I think cobbler overkill if all you want to do is have a > local copy of the CentOS repo for updates and occasional > installations. > > I just mirror the os/ and updates/ trees (about 20G for CentOS 5.4). I > point lighttpd at the root of the mirror tree, enable directory > listings, and push a standard CentOS-Base.repo file that points to the > local mirror to all my CentOS machines. > > -- > Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanks. That's pretty much what I was thinking. By the way, is bottom-posting prefered on this list? -- John Maclean 07739 171 531 MSc (DIC) Enterprise Linux Systems Engineer