> I honestly think that the issue of client-side and server-side bandwidth > (and the efficient utilization of same) needs to be reexamined in light > of the brave new world of huge client disks. Disk is now SO cheap that > yum could actually benefit from having an automirror mode that could be > enabled by e.g. > > automirror_path=/yum_mirror/fc$releasever/$basearch > automirror=1 > automirror_all=1 > Rob - you speak of some interesting ideas. in fact - some of them we've even gone a little down that path: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumIdeas look at repotrack. -sv