"Joe Tseng" wrote: > I want to be able to cache yum updates locally so when I build machines via > kickstart I can have them update more quickly from a local server. I can't > seem to recall how to do this using wget, and googling hasn't turned > anything up yet. Does anyone know of some page that describes how to do > this? Thx. I had this same problem 6 months ago when fc5 was released. I wanted to create a local repo containing just the updates and extras I needed. As far as I could determine then, using such "partial" repositories was not possible without patching yum. The order in which yum tries different repositories is not controllable and essentially random, so that even if one has a repo with a needed rpm sitting on the same disk, yum is still likely to download it from the internet. I submitted a pretty trivial patch to the developers to fix this but it was rejected with the comment that such functionality should be provided via a plugin. Unfortunate that there seems to be no plugin hook at the place in yum where the repo ordering needs to be done. And I guess if you are using kickstart, a yum patch wouldn't help you. My sense is the yum people don't really care that much about people with slow/no internet connections (or there would be a means of installing from CD already.) But its free software so not much point complaining. I do think it is wrong of fc5 docs to say at install time (IIRC) that you need not install everything now because you can easily install additional software later. This is only true if you have a fast/good internet connection, There should be a warning to this effect. (Maybe there is in fc6, haven't installed it yet.)
