[BBLISA] Summary: Suggestions for maintaining a RHEL update repository?

[Brian Reichert]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:39:53PM -0500, Paul Beltrani wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Paul Beltrani <spamgrinder at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We have a large number of Cent/RHEL systems which we maintain with
> > Cobbler, Puppet and YUM.  For  performance, security and control
> > reasons we maintain local mirrors of the package repositories.  This
> > is extremely easy to do for CentOS.  A simple "reposync" or "cobbler
> > reposync" in a cron job keeps our local repository up to date.
> > Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a simple way to do this for
> > our Red Hat systems.

_Really_ late response, but I wanted to kick this out there:

I've been using mrepo to manage a local mirror/repository of RHEL5:

  http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/mrepo/

A good (and not too out-of-date) walk-through is here:

  http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/mrepo_configuration.html

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