This only solves a minor part of the problem. People asking for a YUM repo mostly aren't asking because they want to install updates direct from a YUM repository, but because we want an easy sync source for our own pre-existing internal YUM repos that takes the human factor out of checking the main site by hand for updated packages, downloading them and re-publishing them internally. With Satellite or Pulp, all that would happen automatically based on pre-defined sync and publish rules.
Splunk is currently the ONLY vendor I have to do this archaic nonsense by hand with still. Everything else is synced automatically overnight into Satellite and pre-defined rules specify the workflow from there.
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