Karanbir Singh wrote: > Also, works well for include / > exclude segments so you can easily ( and in a more yum friendly manner ) > manage the package set. forgot to mention, that it also uses yum's transport - so it works through proxy / firewall / tunnel / vpns etc. The *massive* disadvantage of using rsync in production is that you never know what the state of the repo is - there might be partial or missing tree/metadata sets on the remote end, specially when there are new releases going through, so once you have the images/; using reposync is a better way to keep up. ( yes, you would need some other way to get images/ down - reposync wont help with that - cobbler + reposync, if you are using that set will work though : but then thats a whole different ballgame ) - KB
