[WBEL-users] rsync capable mirrors

[Graham Purcocks]

Mark

Don't forget to reply-all or no-one else will see your question. Google 
is your friend. If you try 'WBEL mirror yum' you will see a good link on 
www.hughesjr.com.

Specifically, http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/19/2/Site_News&e=7317

Graham

Shapiro, Mark wrote:
> I now have 12 machines running WB Linux.  Up to now I have been updating
> them individually using up2date.  It would make sense to set up a local
> mirror, but my experience in this area is practically nil.
> 
> Is there a how-to somewhere that explains the process?
> 
> Many Thanks,
> 
> Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
> Professor of Physics, Emeritus
> California State University, Fullerton
> Phone: 714 278-3884
> FAX: 714 278-5810
> email: mshapiro at fullerton.edu
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>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org
> [mailto:whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org] On Behalf Of Graham Purcocks
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 8:12 AM
> To: whitebox-users at beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] rsync capable mirrors
> 
> 
> I'm just building my own internal mirror as we now have sufficient 
> machines to make it a win/win situation. I'm in the UK so this is my 
> best mirror.
> 
> So a quick question.
> 
> Is the os directory at the last respin stage and the updates directory 
> since then?
> 
> If so, presumably the os directory will be updated at respin 2.
> 
> Is this correct?
> 
> Thanks
> Graham
> 
> Jake Grimmett wrote:
> 
>>Dear All,
>>
>>As I have ~30 machines running WB, I use a local mirror for up2date,
> 
> and was 
> 
>>rsync'ing this daily to the ncsu site. With ncsu gone (again, many
> 
> thanks for 
> 
>>their generous bandwidth) I have switched to ESAT, which thankfully is
> 
> also 
> 
>>rsync friendly, just use a couple of lines like this in your crontab:
>>
>>(one line)
>>rsync -Pvptrl --exclude='*SRPMS' --delete  
>>rsync://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/3.0/en/os/ /mylocal 
>>mirrorpath/whitebox_mirror/3.0/en/os/
>>
>>(and one other line)
>>rsync -Pvptrl  --exclude=SRPMS --delete 
>>rsync://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/3.0/en/updates/
> 
> /mylocal 
> 
>>mirrorpath/whitebox_mirror/3.0/en/updates/
>>
>>take care
>>
>>Jake
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