On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 23:32:48 +0530,
 Jay Mistry <jaylinux53@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had to re-install Fedora 10 on a home desktop PC. In regard to this:
>
> Is it possible to have a local cache/ "repository" of all
> 1) Updates (Critical, Security, Bug-fixes), and
> 2) Additional installed rpm's (that were installed through PackageKit), e.g.
> Opera, Adobe Reader, etc.
> so that I do not have to download all those again (800 MB + D/L)

Sure. Just put the rpms of interest in a directory, run createrepo on the
directory and set up an appropriate repo description in
/etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo for some value of *.

For myself I usually mirror the relevant arch parts of updates and
updates-testing and only put a few special things in a local repo.

Thanks for the reply.

Are they to be copied from /var/cache/yum to the dir that is to be used as local repo ? On my PC (this is a non-networked desktop PC), this directory has:
/fedora/packages/ & /updates/packages - both newly-created after I started the Update applet.

I Googled for this for Fedora Linux, but mostly the results refer to networked PC's.

Jay
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Fedora 10, Ubuntu 9.04  (i686)