-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 January 2003 02:26 pm, Charlie wrote: > > For syncing the cooker tree to my local harddrive i use the following > > command: > > > > rsync -avrt --progress --delete ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586 > > /home/lusr/burn/cooker/ > > Extreme thanks Sasha! So in /home I need a /lusr directory (Short for > linux user? Or what sysadmins and developers seem to think of end users > like me?) a burn directory (seems obvious; mkcd blah blah blah etc) and the > /cooker directory that I'm syncing? No trouble. /home (a "common" > partition) now has 18.6 GB to play in and I'm nowhere near the download > bandwidth cap from my ISP. > > Am I adding a user called "lusr" (whatever) or just making directories in > my /home or /home/nanook? Either is fine, I just don't want to screw the > pooch here. > > BTW I have one empty 30 GB (Reiser FS formatted) partition called /store > available on hdb. Would that be more appropriate? Since I'm going to mirror > the entirety of cooker it may become useful for someone down the line. >
No, don't add any user. /home/lusr/burn/cooker/ is simply where I want to keep my local mirror of cooker. Sorry, I neglected to mention to simply substitute the path for whatever path you want to store the files under. So for you that would probably be /home/nanook/[anydir], or if you want to keep it in /store/[anydir] that is also fine. It just depends on which harddrive/partition you want to store the files. My user name (lusr) is just me trying to be funny. ;-) > > For the contrib RPMs use the following command: > > > > rsync -avrt --progress --delete > > ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/ /home/lusr/burn/contrib/i586/ > > > > To add this repository to your urpmi list: > > > > urpmi.addmedia cooker /home/lusr/burn/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with > > ../base/hdlist.cz > > > > And a similar command for the contrib RPMS if you download those as well. > > The easy part but thanks. I would probably have forgotten how to do it at > first. Kind of pointless if I don't sync for contribs though, isn't it? > That's where the "toys" are. :-) It certainly is. If you are concerned about you bandwidth and harddrive space you can also make a file (i called it 'ignore.txt') where you list all the packages that you are not interested in downloading. So if you are using it solely as a desktop you can put apache, and other servers in that file and it shall not sync them. Then you have to use the additional switch with rsync: - --exclude-from=/home/nanook/ignore.txt The whole thing would then look like this: rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude-from=/home/nanook/ignore.txt ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586 /home/nanook/burn/cooker/ Good luck, Sascha Noyes - -- Please encrypt all correspondence. PGP key available from: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Kwb0gzJdfX+cTW8RAgxbAJ9Y5FEu84NXD+XBHFNQac/FtukrjQCeMMqZ OtSIes4acm/kAaSJZhl6wno= =Oh0g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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