On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:48:21 +0100 (BST) Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Hi,
> I'd never heard of mrepo or cobbler, but > I think you are working at a different level from the SL docs. Yep. > The SL doc recommends ftp and especially rsync as ways of > *transferring* updates from the master to the mirror. > > A quick look at the instructions for mrepo or cobbler suggests > that they are tools for serving mirrored data and that they can > both use rsync to collect updates from the master. Exactly. Maybe my question was not clear enough. My question was: why SL recommends "low level" tools and not "advanced" ones? Is there any problem with mrepo (which also does a cretearepo) ? Is a simple rsync/ftp the best way for doing the mirror? We're using mrepo (with createrepo) and we're moving to cobbler (a higher level tool for repos/distro/install...) and we can sleect a new way for mirroring distros. So, if mrpeo (with its createrepo, blah, blah...) is not recommmended, we're on time to change to pure rsync/ftp. Sorry if I did not ask my question propertly in my first mail. Cheers, Arnau