Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-11-18 Thread Jean Figarella
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ashley M. Kirchner wrote on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:59:53 -0600: Uhhh, I don't experience that when I run my rsync script. It actually does delete stuff that's no longer on the mirror. Yeah, but the repo seems to keep a lot ... I downloaded 5 or more versions of the same rpm

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-12 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Apparently, I can avoid it when regularly downloading by specifying a timelimit, but I can't avoid getting it all when I start a mirror (unless I use a filelist). That wouldn't be a mirror then, would it? :) I suppose, if you're really wanting to, one thing you could at

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:59:53 -0600: > Uhhh, I don't experience that when I run my rsync script. It > actually does delete stuff that's no longer on the mirror. Yeah, but the repo seems to keep a lot ... I downloaded 5 or more versions of the same rpm of some software (

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-12 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > Kai Schaetzl ha scritto: > > Lorenzo wrote on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:38:21 +0200: > > > > > Have you tried mrepo? > > > > How would this help? The main problem is to get rid of the "old" updates. > > Kai > > You're right, I thought that mrepo would get r

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-11 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Thanks, but this will still download and keep *all* updates for a platform. If they exist on the mirror, then yes. However, anything that gets removed from the mirror you're using, will also get deleted from your local copy. That's the whole idea behind rsync's --delete

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-11 Thread Barry Brimer
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: Kai Schaetzl ha scritto: Lorenzo wrote on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:38:21 +0200: Have you tried mrepo? How would this help? The main problem is to get rid of the "old" updates. Kai Back in the old days, I used to use autoupdate .. and I believe th

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-11 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
Kai Schaetzl ha scritto: Lorenzo wrote on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:38:21 +0200: Have you tried mrepo? How would this help? The main problem is to get rid of the "old" updates. Kai You're right, I thought that mrepo would get rid of old updates by himself, but id doesn't. I am looking right no

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mark pryor wrote on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:30:46 -0700 (PDT): > I only have a comment about the base mirror. Instead of using the internet to make a base mirror (not sure you did it that way), you can use the CentOS-Media.repo Ah, well, I remember having read about this, but admit I didn't think abo

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:47:07 -0400: > Yes a lot of past versions are kept in the repo, but if you filter > those out then it wouldn't be a "mirror" then? Well, I'm just interested in the latest bits ;-) > > Be careful with the "repomd.xml" file, delete it before starting

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:45:42 -0600: > Use rsync. I keep a local copy of the updates, specific to my > platform. I'm also very specific in WHAT I want locally as you'll see > in the following script. Thanks, but this will still download and keep *all* updates for a pl

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lorenzo wrote on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:38:21 +0200: > Have you tried mrepo? How would this help? The main problem is to get rid of the "old" updates. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-11 Thread Lorenzo
Kai Schaetzl ha scritto: I figured I try if I can mirror the base and updates repos locally. There's no tutorial for that, only one about creating your own repo of packages which is not the same. So, I just mirrored all the stuff with wget and changed the baseurl in the repo files and hoped tha

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Kai Schaetzl wrote: *But* I then realized that the updates directory contains *all* updates, not just the latest. Which means if I don't regularly check I may get old versions mirrored I don't want. It also means that I get a lot of unwanted files at the time I start to mirror. And I cannot del

Re: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-10 Thread mark pryor
Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I figured I try if I can mirror the base and updates repos locally. There's no tutorial for that, only one about creating your own repo of packages which is not the same. So, I just mirrored all the stuff with wget and changed the baseurl in the repo fi

RE: [CentOS] Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-10 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > I figured I try if I can mirror the base and updates repos locally. > There's no tutorial for that, only one about creating your > own repo of > packages which is not the same. So, I just mirrored all the > stuff with > wget and changed the baseurl in the repo files an