On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 18:11:49 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone told you about the cooksync.pl script put together by one of > the guys (Dave Wasler?) on the cooker list? It is a script you can use > for mirroring cooker to your local drive using rsync. > > !!!!!!The best part about it is that when there are updated files on the > cooker server the script will rename the ***local package*** to match > the name of the ***newer package*** allowing rsync to download the > differences in the file instead of downloading a whole new file!!!!! > > Say there is an update to kdebase on the cooker server. Let's say it > fixed a bug that was introduced in the last release. The fix was on a > few kilobytes. You can use fget, rsync or fmirror to download the > entire 18MB file, or you can rename the local file to match the name of > the file on the server and rsync will download only the few kilobytes > that are different. As you can imagine this saves quite a bit of time > and bandwidth. This script does that. > > If anyone wants it I can send you a version of the script that is > already set up to use the ftp.sunet.se server and can be adapted to use > any cooker mirror you like. You can run diff against it and the > original script to see that I have not included any harmful code. You > can download the original here: > http://luigiwalser.homeip.net:8080/~david/cooksync.pl > > -You will need to specify your local directory by opening up the script > in a text editor and changing "/home/brant" to your local directory. > -Then in that home directory you will need to create the directories > cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS. > > When the script is run it will mirror the RPMS directory of the cooker > server to /home/[your_directory]/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS. > > Set the cron job to fire off cooksync.pl, run urpmi off of the directory > above and you're set. > > Any questions let me know. > Ya, I'm trying it out. It's really nice and easy to configure! Last night I was syncing the contribs directory, and this morning I started it up again. But, you said that it automatically renamed files so that it could just download the differences. There were some updated packages this morning, and to my dismay it started to download the whole thing. No renaming or anything. It left the original one there and I assume it will delete it when it is done syncing. Thanks for your help! John Drouhard -- Mon Jun 23 10:19:22 UTC 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------- They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001
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