CentOS and RHEL use YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified) for distributing software packages. This section of my site is dedicated to guides about YUM.

• CentOS
  
• EPEL repository (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)
• RepoForge / RPMforge

rsync vs reposync

My guides focus on using the rsync command instead of the reposync command. The two reasons why are:

• The rsync command has the --bwlimit= argument which allows me to sync the repository without saturating my internet connection
• By using the rsync command to download the files directly I am able to download any architecture version from the one central server
  

Thanks

I went searching the internet to find out how to setup a YUM server. I came across this guide created by Paul, it's what I used to get up and running initially and it's pretty straight forward.

http://paulcodr.co/blog/2015/yumrepo-server-local/