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yum-pull
yum-pull modifications
William Stearns created a great script called yum-pull to mirror repositories locally. As it frequently lags behind Fedora releases, I modified it to make it easier to handle new releases. I also added some additional flags to help us out locally. I removed several repositories that we never use and tried to update some of the paths that had changed in other repositories since his last release. I also dropped repositories like livna, dribble, and others that combined into rpmfusion and added that repository. I plan to keep things synchronized with Mr.
Checkmirror mirror synchronization helper
This checkmirror script is used with William Stearn's yum-pull script (modified) to try to reduce unwanted downloads of stale RPMs.
The yum-pull script, as distributed on Mr. Stearn's site is really pretty good. It keeps track of everything it has downloaded and if the proper tools are available on your site will expire old RPMs for you and keep track of them so they aren't downloaded again. That's pretty handy.
Software
There are currently two primary open source projects that have been useful at the company for which I work and locally.
The first, gkrellm, is a graphical system monitor that works in a networked environment. I have some patches for this software that make direct use of iptables information to do packet accounting. This requires that the software run as root which may not be desired for some users. I don't run this software much any more, so the patches aren't kept absolutely current to the latest gkrellm release upstream. In the past, the patches were able to applied to Bill Wilson's latest source trees. Your mileage may vary.
The second is the yum-pull repository manager. This was written by William Stearns. It was frequently a release or so behind for the software that we needed where I work, so I modified it and cleaned it up, removing the repositories which we would never use and generalizing the release management. It isn't as flexible as his is operationally, but it is much easier to update as new releases of software are released. We kept the Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, and kde-redhat repositories, and added the fusion repositories. We also added quite a few new option switches to make our life easier.
Along with this script is a checkmirror script written in perl that I added to try to prevent downloading RPMs that were out of date with respect to the RPMs already available in the local repository. I've also added some patches to try to not remove kmod and xorg drivers for old kernels to make it easier to revert back a kernel level if something goes wrong with the most recently produced kernel. The verifymirror script is a helper script in case your local mirror has hardware problems that takes out part of your repository. The managemirror script speeds up the deletion process for old RPMs on your mirror.
Many thanks to the original authors of yum-pull and GKrellM and for releasing them under the GPL.