Re: Local Yum Repo HowTo On Line

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 22:30 -0700, Bob R. Taylor wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 21:06 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > > This is probably a worthwhile endeavor if you have three or more
> > > machines to keep updated. There are a number of these floating around. I
> > > have tried to update and simplify the process.
> > >
> > > Let me know what you think.
> > > http://www.TQMcube.com/repo.htm
>
> Very good! However, why the need to copy all the CD/DVD onto the HD? Why
> not grab the files from Red Hat or a mirror? Have I missed something?

That would work equally well but David is assuming (rightly) that most
people will already have the CD/DVD (or at least the ISOs, which are
equivalent) from which they've done the OS install, so why download
everything again?

Paul.