> For some time I've fiddled with Debian and Ubuntu LTS. There's one > really nice feature for local networks: apt-cacher, a package proxy > for APT. > > My company is in the remote South French countryside, and more often > than not, schools and public libraries only have some very limited > Internet access with relatively low bandwidth, which can make the > updating process very tedious. A package cache comes in very handy in > such situation. You can also enable keepcache in /etc/yum.conf on one of the servers and after update copy rpms from /var/cache/yum to a (higher priority) local repository. You'll need to use createrepo to generate metadata for the repo. HTH