Setting up a repository server with yum-pull

Good morning, Jon, all,
 	Yum, apt, up2date and other package management tools have helped 
reduce the amount of manual labor involved in installing new rpms, but 
don't address the issue of bandwidth used in patching a large collection 
of machines or applying updates when ones Internet line is down.  *smile*
 	I've put together a script called yum-pull that pulls down 
collections of rpm packages off Internet servers and stores them locally, 
creates apt, yum and up2date indexes for them, and shares the files with 
client machines.  The setup instructions describe all the steps needed to 
set up a single repository server, redundant repository servers, and even 
a staging server which allows the administrator to manually check packages 
before releasing them to client machines.
 	The current release, version 1.45, supports:
* Centos 3.4 and 4.0, (both i386 and x86_64)
* Fedora Core 1, 2, 3, and 4 (both i386 and x86_64)
* Mandriva (formerly mandrake) 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2 (i386)
* Redhat 7.3, 8.0, and 9 (i386) (maintained by Fedoralegacy)
* Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 (i386)
* Novell SuSE 9.2 and 9.3 (i386)
* Whitebox Linux 3 and 4
 	The currently available modules are: atrpms, biorpms, ccrma, core 
(original distribution packages), dag, dries, extras, freshrpms, jpackage, 
livna (livna, livna-testing, and livna-unstable), local (packages you 
maintain locally), newrpms, nrpms, openpkg, updates (updates to core), 
wstearns, and ximian.
 	Yum-pull can be found at http://www.stearns.org/yum-pull/ .  The 
setup document is embedded in that page and also accessible by itself at 
http://www.stearns.org/yum-pull/README.yum-pull.html .
 	Patches and suggestions are always welcome.
 	Cheers,
 	- Bill

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