On 11/06/02 05:05, Brian Long wrote: > 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/
+1 for mrepo. We've been using it for our site the last three years for not only RHEL, but CentOS and SL as well. Works like a charm, but RHN *does* need to be up to get updates. As there are so many mirrors for the other two, uptime of the primary is not an issue. Best Regards, Camron -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc. E-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
