Quoting Jeff Sheltren <sheltren@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Aug 9, 2005, at 7:52 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > I want to mirror updates-testing for FC2 to my server. What's the > > correct way to do that? I mostly need the new repo metadata format > > as I've updated yum to use the new FC3-style XML metadata, and > > downloads.fedoralegacy.org lacks that for the FC2 directories. > > > > I essentially want to script a fetch of the RPM's in <http:// > > download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/2/updates-testing/i386/> and then > > run createrepo on the result. > > > > I'd say that using rsync is the easiest way. Check the mirror list > for a rsync server near you: > http://fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mirrors.php > > Then, run rsync to download the rpms locally. Subsequent runs of > rsync will only download what is changed from your server's point of > view. > > Then it's just a matter of running createrepo on your server. You'll > only need to rsync the base packages once, since those don't change. > Then just periodically update the updates directory and run > createrepo on it. > > People will probably argue what the best rsync flags are, but you > can't go too wrong using something like: > rsync -azv rsync://some.server.org/mirrors/fedoralegacy/2/ /your/ > local/dir/2 > > -Jeff I use a slightly modified script that I got from the tutorial at: http://fedoranews.org/alex/tutorial/yum/ A good starting point IMHO. He provides the info, the scripts, etc. you need. Now, I don't know about the meta-data issue, since I only use this on the old RHL repos, not on Fedora Core repos, but I'd expect it could be made to work without too much effort, if any. -- Eric Rostetter -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
