At Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:41:11 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Robert, > > On 25 August 2010 14:24, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > > The main problem is that yum is NOT well written to deal with a slow > > and *unreliable* dial-up interface -- it in fact behaves extremly > Grab a copy of a repository at work, copy it home and set up a local > repository. Yum will be perfectly happy with the setup. > Sample to rsync to mirrorservice.org: My 'work' is at home (dialup). The local library is only good for about 1.5mbits/sec (about 150kbytes/sec). I don't have enough free disk space for a full repo on either my laptop or my desktop. > > export RSYNCCMD="rsync -avP --delete" > $RSYNCCMD rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.5/updates/x86_64/ > /storage/centos/5.5/updates/x86_64/ > $RSYNCCMD rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.5/updates/i386/ > /storage/centos/5.5/updates/i386/ > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/