RE: Fedora Extras

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 22:03 -0400, Tim Holmes wrote:
>  
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 01:54 +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Is there a Fedora extras iso image one can download ? I see there is a
> > repo but i can't seem to find any iso image.
> 
> Create your own repo and then use rsync nightly to keep it up to date.
> >
> I for one would be quite interested if someone could post instructions or a link on how to PROPERLY create a local repo (mine will be FC3).

I use lftp to do it. lftp mirror will only grab new files, so once
mirrors are created - keeping them updated is little bandwidth.

You also could use rsync, but rsync access is not given to everyone.

Some mirrors may allow you rsync access, some don't.

I have a user with permission to write to /var/ftp/yum

This runs in his crontab once a night

#!/bin/bash

function mirror_release {
    REL="$1"
    ARCH="$2"


CORE="ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/${REL}/${ARCH}/os/";

UPDATES="ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/${REL}/${ARCH}/";

EXTRAS="ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/${REL}/${ARCH}/";
    
    MR_CORE="/var/ftp/pub/yum/fedora/core/${REL}/${ARCH}/os/"
    MR_UPDATES="/var/ftp/pub/yum/fedora/core/updates/${REL}/${ARCH}"
    MR_EXTRAS="/var/ftp/pub/yum/fedora/extras/${REL}/${ARCH}/"
    
    [ ! -d ${MR_CORE} ] && mkdir -p ${MR_CORE}
    [ ! -d ${MR_UPDATES} ] && mkdir -p ${MR_UPDATES}
    [ ! -d ${MR_EXTRAS} ] && mkdir -p ${MR_EXTRAS}

#    cd ${MR_CORE}
#    lftp -e 'mirror -e && exit' ${CORE}
    cd ${MR_UPDATES}
    lftp -e 'mirror -X debug/* -e && exit' ${UPDATES}
    cd ${MR_EXTRAS}
    lftp -e 'mirror -X debug/* -e && exit' ${EXTRAS}
    
}

mirror_release 3 i386
mirror_release 4 i386
mirror_release 4 ppc
mirror_release 4 x86_64

echo "mirror completed at `date`" |mail -s "mirror_report"
mpeters@localhost

-=-
Once core is synced - I comment out the core stuff since it doesn't
change.