On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 10:02, R P Herrold wrote: > On 28 Jul 2003, Angel Gabriel wrote: > > > I would like to know how to get yum to locally mirror an RPM repository? > > yum is not designed to mirror -- consider wget, lftp, or the > mirror per script for that purpose Actually, one feature I'm thinking about adding to yum is the ability to download from a yum repository everything in the repository. (Everything being defined as the latest version of everything per yum's version policies). For distro builders like myself, rolling updated ISOs can be a pain vis-a-vis incorporating errata and deleting older versions. So, since yum figgers out latest versions already, I'd like to be able to leverage it to build a new /YellowDog/RPMS/ that is current. This is a bit of a slick/unimportant feature in the grand scheme, but would save someone like me a lot of time. So, I suppose you could use such a feature for mirroring purposes, although it wouldn't grab everything, just the current bits. Maybe that makes sense for mirroring, though. :-)
