On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 09:45, dalen wrote: > Does anyone know how to rsync from the public Redhat servers? > I use this (it's all on one line in my crontab): 00 12 * * * /usr/bin/rsync -av --partial --stats --exclude headers --exclude debug mirror.dulug.duke.edu::archive/pub/fedora/linux/core /var/ftp/pub/fedora/linux But I mirror the entire repository once a day you may not want to do this unless you have a big pipe. The initial run took quite a while but subsequent runs only take about 20 seconds or so if nothing changed on the remote repo. I exclude the debug dir's and the header dir's cause I regenerate the headers on my side via cron. > If I have to rsync from a mirror, does a differing directory structure > matter and if so how? Dunno what ya mean exactly. Doesn't seem to matter to me. > > Which files/directories are needed by yum base and updates-released > other than headers/rpms/srpms, or which can be skipped (*.iso)? I didn't skip any, but that's my preference. But yes you can skip the iso directories. Like I said before I skip the debug and header directories too. > If I switch to a local repository after some updates from the Redhat > servers, do I need to do any maintenance first such as delete > /var/cache/yum? > I don't think you'll have to. I didn't. You also don't need to go to the length of mirroring the entire repository. You could simply put the needed rpms in a dir and run yum-arch and then point your yum.conf to the local repository. In that case you would only need the rpms from the repository I used from this dir (for x86): http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/ and for the updates in a separate dir: http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/ Hope this helps. Scott
