[WBEL-users] alternative mirrors for my purpose?

[Christian Reeves]

> #!/bin/sh
> 
> # re-rsync'ing the entire os and iso dirs is probably 
> overkill given # that they never change.  However, it should 
> be relatively light # over rsync, and I want a script that 
> always works from scratch.
> 
> RSYNC_BASE="rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/whitebox/"
> versionList="3.0"
> 
> for ver in $versionList
> do
>         for subdir in os iso
>         do
>                 for arch in i386
>                 do
>                         echo "Fetching WhiteBox: 
> /mirrors/whitebox/$ver/en/$subdir/"
>                         mkdir -p 
> /mirrors/whitebox/$ver/en/$subdir/$arch
>                         rsync -avr -P 
> $RSYNC_BASE/$ver/en/$subdir/$arch/.  
> /mirrors/whitebox/$ver/en/$subdir/$arch/.
>                 done
>         done
>         rsync -avr -P $RSYNC_BASE/$ver/en/updates/.  
> /mirrors/whitebox/$ver/en/updates/.
> done
> 
> # God only knows what brain damage the mirrors have done to 
> i386 and # updates directory, I used to never do this, but 
> after getting # tired of waiting days for the mirrors and 
> whiteboxlinux.org to # re-sync, I do this myself if only so 
> my repository will always # have a consistant set of yum header files.
> 
> /usr/bin/yum-arch -s -v /mirrors/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386 
> /usr/bin/yum-arch -s -v /mirrors/whitebox/3.0/en/updates # 
> End of shell script.
> 
> Run the above script, modifying the base path (I really 
> should put in MIRROR_PREFIX="/mirrors/whitebox", and use 
> $MIRROR_PREFIX in the script.
> 
> 
> Then add this in the appropriate place to your httpd.conf:
> (Personally, I place it in /etc/httpd/conf.d/kickstart.conf 
> where I put all the Apache directives to make my kickstart server go).
> 
> Alias /whitebox "/mirrors/whitebox"
> 
> <Directory "/mirrors/whitebox">
>     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>     AllowOverride None
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> Then do:
> 
> # service httpd restart
> 
> Use your favorite web browser to ensure that 
> http://hostname/whitebox does in fact work.
> 
> Now edit /etc/yum.conf to point to the correct relative path.


Brilliant...syncing now...I'll test her out tomorrow. Thanks again!!