[BBLISA] Suggestions for maintaining a RHEL update repository?

[Dean Anderson]

If you rsync your repositories, doesn't that eliminate any security and
control considerations?  I mean, you'll get whatever they offer,
overwriting what you had before, anyway.  If that's the case, then its
just a matter of performance, and so can't you just spider their updates
directory with wget and xslt your own yum repo files on the contents
downloaded?

Of course, I'm too conservative in my updates to do any of that, though.  
Is it time to upgrade from RH6.2??? Is there a stable kernel for 2.4
yet? <grin shteating=yes/>

;-)  ;-P 

		--Dean

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Paul Beltrani wrote:

> We have a large number of Cent/RHEL systems which we maintain with
> Cobbler, Puppet and YUM.  For  performance, security and control
> reasons we maintain local mirrors of the package repositories.  This
> is extremely easy to do for CentOS.  A simple "reposync" or "cobbler
> reposync" in a cron job keeps our local repository up to date.
> Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a simple way to do this for
> our Red Hat systems.
> 
> I'm aware of RHN/up2date/Satellite, but these aren't appropriate in
> this instance for several reasons which I will not waste time on here.
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestions how to do this?  If I can't find
> anything simple, we'll most likely fall back to just pulling down the
> ISOs at every point release.
> 
>   - Paul Beltrani
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