On 6/2/11 9:29 AM, Hugh Brown wrote: >> Also, I don't like this single point of failure. If we come in to do >> maintenance, and >> the update service is offline, there are no alternative mirrors I am >> aware of. >> >> --Donald > > In the past, we would do a "yum --downloadonly -y update" before a > planned maintenance window so that all of the packages would be local to > the box that needed to be patched. You have to have the > yum-plugin-downloadonly package installed for that to work. > > Another alternative is to buy the Satellite service and then you have a > local version of RHN.
Another option I've recently tried is mrepo from Dag Wieers. I had to apply a few patches to get it working with RHEL 6, but it's been awesome. http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/ /Brian/ -- Brian Long | | Corporate Security Programs Org . | | | . | | | . ' ' C I S C O _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
