On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:32:55 -0600, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jan 26, 2008 10:25 AM, Derek Tattersall <tatters@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It would. I'm looking to set this up properly myself. Haven't recently > setup a mirror for that very purpose. > > > I have looked at the howto at www.howtoforge.com, and I am not really > > happy with the method described there. It involves picking a particular > > mirror and using rsync to keep the local repository up to date. > > That's they properly way. I keep local copies of repositories. I hand carry stuff from work (where I can download stuff at reasonable speeds) to home. Currently I am using lftp to do the mirroring. One thing you need to be aware of is that occasionally mirrors get part of an update. If you try to do a yum update in that situation it should fail. Normally just waiting will fix the problem.
