das wrote:
I want to keep a local copy of the Fedora 7 repository, only the i386
branch. This will be updated in regular intervals, that I can break it
into DVD-s (or, even CD-s) and write them, and after installing F7 in a
machine, the 'yum' can be run on these DVD-s.
Now, can anyone please suggest a very simple way of doing this thing?
You can use rsync with any of the mirrors to keep a local copy. I
have a shell script that I run every so often:
~:> cat rsync.sh
echo "Getting Fedora Core 7 Updates...";
echo -e "********************************\n";
rsync --verbose --progress --archive \
--partial --delete --delete-excluded \
--exclude SRPMS/ \
--exclude ppc/ \
--exclude ppc64/ \
--exclude x86_64/ \
--exclude i386/debug/ \
--exclude i386/repodata/ \
rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/7/ "/home/Fedora 7/Updates/";
This will fetch just the i386 folder from mirrors.kernel.org and
dump it into /home/Fedora7/Updates. I suggest you look at the actual
mirror first to see what folder they have and what the full path is to
the repository - each one is different. And some places won't mirror
everything either, so you have to look and then tell rsync what you want
excluded...
