On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Yes, the default setup really goes out of its way to defeat any >> standard caching proxies and make the mirrors do extra work, although >> once you accumulate the copies from 5 or 6 sources everything will >> work like you expect. That used to bother me but now the mirrors seem >> to be insanely fast so if your own connection is good it just doesn't >> matter. >> >> > Part of my problem is that my own connection is absolutely terrible. > > Anyway, I'll figure something out. What I'll probably end up doing is > taking my laptop home and rsycing a mirror to it, then taking it back into > work and shooting that over to my server. > > Though just for giggles I'm going to try to get central IT to unblock rsync > for me :-) > I think, after doing a 'yum --downloadonly update' you could rsync wherever the packages land under /var/cache/yum to other machines that will need them. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com