Robert, On 25 August 2010 14:24, Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The main problem is that yum is NOT well written to deal with a slow > and *unreliable* dial-up interface -- it in fact behaves extremly Grab a copy of a repository at work, copy it home and set up a local repository. Yum will be perfectly happy with the setup. Sample to rsync to mirrorservice.org: export RSYNCCMD="rsync -avP --delete" $RSYNCCMD rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.5/updates/x86_64/ /storage/centos/5.5/updates/x86_64/ $RSYNCCMD rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.5/updates/i386/ /storage/centos/5.5/updates/i386/ -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos