Don't use repo sync: use rsync of an upstream server, which can handle sym links and hard links •much• more efficiently.

Yum and repo sync are grossly inefficient because of the size of the repo data, compressed tables

Nico Kadel-Garcia
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> On May 6, 2014, at 4:55, Arnau Bria <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been running SL6.3 for a long time. Now I'd like to start using
> 6.5 and I'd like to do local replicas of SL repos.
> 
> yum-conf-sl6x-1-2.noarch
> yum-conf-sl-other-6-4.1.noarch
> sl-release-6.5-1.x86_64
> 
> provide the repositories for 6.5. 
> 
> yum-conf-sl-other-6-4.1.noarch can be ignored as it has all repos disabled
> 
> sl-release-6.5-1.x86_64 provides base + security
> 
> and I have a question about yum-conf-sl6x-1-2.noarch . Why is this enabled by default? 
> Is a replica of sl-release (base+security) enough for running 6.5 ?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Arnau