Hi I have never done something like this, but i was thinking about this issue too. I came up with the idea using a proxy server like squid which is caching the downloaded rpm's and rpm headers. I have never tried it to be honest, but this would probably work, what do you think? On this way, you don't have to set up a local mirror, only the packages which are really needed will be downloaded and cached. What do you think? Cheers, Juerg Timothy Murphy wrote: > Dave Burns wrote: > > >> There might be a more elegant way to check whether the cache was >> complete (yum checkupdate piped into... ?) before trying to update. Or >> just have the master constantly updating and have all the rpms. At >> which point you might as well make it a local mirror? >> > > Thanks for the suggestions, which I'll certainly look at. > > But it surprises me there is no standard way of doing this. > It must be a fairly standard need nowadays. > > >
