Local cache / 'repo' of updates and added RPM's

[JayLinux]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 23:32:48 +0530,

>  Jay Mistry <jaylinux53 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I had to re-install Fedora 10 on a home desktop PC. In regard to this:
>>
>> Is it possible to have a local cache/ "repository" of all
>> 1) Updates (Critical, Security, Bug-fixes), and
>> 2) Additional installed rpm's (that were installed through PackageKit),
e.g.
>> Opera, Adobe Reader, etc.
>> so that I do not have to download all those again (800 MB + D/L)
>
> Sure. Just put the rpms of interest in a directory, run createrepo on the
> directory and set up an appropriate repo description in
> /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo for some value of *.
>
> For myself I usually mirror the relevant arch parts of updates and
> updates-testing and only put a few special things in a local repo.

In addition, there is a yum plugin that may serve the same function:

yum-plugin-local
>
> When this plugin is installed it will automatically copy all downloaded
> packages to a repository on the local file system, and (re)build that
> repository. This means that anything you've downloaded will always exist,
> even if the original repo removes it (and can thus. be
> reinstalled/downgraded/etc.).
>

Have just installed it.

Jay

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