[Yum] Maintaining my own copy of UPDATES

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 
>
>>>>  reposync is the normal way to do it. Also you might want to look at:
>>>> 
>>>> http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching
>>> 
>>> None of which are particularly desirable.  There has to be some clever way 
>>> to make yum work reasonably with a standard caching proxy in spite of the 
>>> effort mirrorlists make to defeat their usefulness.
>> 
>> Don't use the mirrorlist, then.
>> 
>> Or setup Intelligent Mirror.
>
> The reason I use a package manager is to _reduce_ the amount of individual 
> machine * site * disto specific twiddling that has to be done.
>
> I'd like to be able to have something reasonable happen with distributions as 
> they are shipped and third party repos that have their yum config packaged in 
> RPMs without having to second-guess them. I don't mind passing 
> location-specific proxies in the environment since that can be easily done in 
> loop of ssh commands across all the targets - but the proxy doesn't help much 
> until it has a copy of the same file from each of the mirrors.  Can't yum try 
> the mirrorlist in the same order when it sees a proxy setting in the 
> environment or the configuration?  Or have a command line option to specify 
> that you don't want it to go out if it's way to defeat your cache?  Also, 
> could we have an option to tell it to skip any ftp:// urls when you know the 
> only way out is a proxy that won't handle them?

<SARCASM>
send me the ip ranges you use, I'll add some code to yum to magically work 
for you if it determines it is coming from one of those ips.

</SARCASM>

-sv