В Втр, 14/10/2008 в 11:51 +0530, J S Jayakumar пишет:
> Troy Dawson wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I want to thank everyone who has migrated their clusters to their own 
> > mirrors.   This has really helped the load on ftp.scientificlinux.org, 
> > and hopefully made updates quicker for you as well.
> > Thank You Very Much
> > Troy
> Dear Troy,
> 
>     Persons using SL in our Institute has a problem that they can not 
> update their SL version using package updater (pup) due to firewall 
> restrictions.

You may set 'proxy' option at /etc/yum.conf (man yum.conf)

>   But we can download the necessary files from 
> ftp.scientificlinux.org and keep it available to the users.  Kindly tell 
> me how to setup the mirror which will be used only for updates of 
> SL5.x.  We want to keep ONLY those files which are needed for updating  
> SL5.x systems and not the whole set of directories and files.  Also 
> please indicate how to instruct pup to use this repository for updating SL.

Just change repository parameters in corresponding repo-files
at /etc/yum.repos.d

> With Thanks and Regards,
> 
> J S Jayakumar


--Oleg