[WBEL-users] rsync from NCSU

[Pete Biggs]

> 
> I've rsync'd the directories from NCSU, thanks to the great directions 
> from here:
> 
> http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/19/2/Site_News
> 
> The thing is, I'm doing this because yum's so slow that I wnt to rsync and 
> then run yum against my own box.  His directions basically state that I 
> have to run vsftp or httpd.  Is there any way to run yum against the local 
> directories without running either service?
> 

I have 

yum WBEL-updates file:/mirrors/wbel/updates
yum WBEL3 file:/mirrors/wbel/os/i386
yum WBEL3-Extras file:/mirrors/wbel/extras

in my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file and that seems to work fine.

P.

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