Using local update mirror with SLES 10

> Aside from how annoyed I am with them apparently forcing you to buy Zen
> works to get something as basic as a local update repository, it doesn't
> look to me like that would even work!
>
> From looking at
> http://www.novell.com/products/zenwo...t/sysreqs.html it
> sure looks to me like SLES10 isn't even supported yet by Zenworks. WTF?
>
> This missing feature makes no sense to me, especially with their Xen
> support. I mean, if I have one physical server running 10 domUs, they're
> going to make me download the updates 11 times??? I can't think that is
> bandwidth efficient for them, and I know it isn't for me.
>
> I'm starting to regret having bought SLES. The only reason was for
> commercial support of a couple of applications I need to run, otherwise
I'd
> keep everything on Debian. With Debian, I had apt-proxy which works great
> for a good local cache of packages/updates.
>
> --
> Jason
>