Good evening, David,
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, David Cary Hart wrote:
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:55:56 -0500
James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> opined:
I've put together a script to handle mirroring repositories
locally. http://www.stearns.org/yum-pull/ has the script and a howto
document on how to set it all up.
Best of luck!
I'm trying to use your yum-pull script and think I have it mostly set
up. Trying to do FC4 right now. I will also add CentOS and Suse at some
point.
I still think you are better off with the rsync approach. Correct me
I'm a big fan of rsync as well, and yum-pull has used it since it
was first written.
For each of the distributions and modules, yum-pull has a list of
mirrors, some rsync, some ftp, and some http. It randomly picks one and
uses rsync for rsync urls and lftp for ftp and http urls.
if I am wrong but I believe that rsync provides much better
throughput than yum plus compression. Have you looked at
The files being downloaded are mostly rpms, which are already
compressed. Turning on rsync compression won't generally help and may
occasionally slow down the transfer as the transferred file can get
slightly larger. That's why I don't turn on compression with either
download tool.
In download situations where the local system might have an older
file that has some of the same content as the newer file, rsync can speed
up the download by reusing old blocks. With rpm repositories, the only
likely case where that happens is where one had an incomplete download in
the past.
http://tqmcube.com/repo.php ?
I have - thanks for taking the time to write it.
You and I are doing many of the same things! The major difference
is that you're providing step by step instructions for people to do this
themselves, and I'm providing a script that tries to automate those steps
as much as possible. I'm glad we've both done the work - people can
choose which is appropriate for them.
BTW, extras is now using repoview (which I recommend). You can get a
look at it here: http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/i386/repodata/
yum-pull runs this automatically too - see
http://ford.stearns.org/fedora/linux/3/x86_64/updates/ .
Cheers,
- Bill
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