[WBEL-users] rsync from NCSU

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Pete Biggs wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've rsync'd the directories from NCSU, thanks to the great directions 
> > from here:
> > 
> > http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/19/2/Site_News
> > 
> > The thing is, I'm doing this because yum's so slow that I wnt to rsync and 
> > then run yum against my own box.  His directions basically state that I 
> > have to run vsftp or httpd.  Is there any way to run yum against the local 
> > directories without running either service?
> > 
> 
> I have 
> 
> yum WBEL-updates file:/mirrors/wbel/updates
> yum WBEL3 file:/mirrors/wbel/os/i386
> yum WBEL3-Extras file:/mirrors/wbel/extras
> 
> in my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file and that seems to work fine.
> 
Hey, worked great!  Thanks!

I haven't seen the extras, so I tried looking at NCSU for extras.  I saw 
that they have a short directory tree, but nothing in it.  Where are you 
getting your extras, and are you able to rsync it or are you having to do 
something else?

Thanks again!

Ben