On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Karsten Jeppesen wrote: > Maybe this is stupid, but wouldn't it be easier to just use a > combination of 'rsync' and wget from whatever repositories you want and > then just run yum-arch locally? > > Yum-arch doesn't care how many copies you have of the same package. It > will find the newer one (version-wise). > > Karsten There is also a "yum-mirror" contribution out there that uses the yum urlgrabber to build the mirror. Check the list archives. Overall, though, I completely agree with Karsten and included instructions for using rsync in the yum-HOWTO-sort-of-beta-that-one-day-I'll-finish. rsync is nearly optimally efficient at this sort of thing. I rsync to Duke's images roughly once a week from home, then yum update everything at home from my local repository. Really saves precious DSL bandwidth that way. rgb > > > On Mar 9, 2004, at 13:13, seth vidal wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 14:56 -0600, Josh More wrote: > > > >> I am looking for a tool to keep disk-only respositories in sync > >> with what is on the net. I am making a single-disc linux distro > >> based off FC1, and would like to be able to include packages that > >> they do not. Ideally, I would have a structure as follows: > >> > >> ~build/new_linux > >> ~build/repositories/fedora > >> ~build/repositories/freshrpms > >> ~build/repositories/atrpms > >> ~build/repositories/newrpms > >> etc. > >> > >> Where I would have a list of what packages should be kept up to date > >> in the repositories. Then I would like to use yum to keep the > >> directories in sync with the rest of the net. I could then merge > >> the RPMs together that I wanted, and generate an ISO containing > >> those RPMs, to simplify installation and updating. > >> > >> However, glancing through the yum man page, I do not see a way > >> to download, but not install, an rpm. Is there a way to do this, > >> or should I work on extending yum? > >> > >> Apologies if this has been asked before. I did not see a way to > >> search the list. > >> > > > > look at the latest daily releases --download-only should be there, to > > be > > honest I don't think the functionality you describe is really what -- > > download-only does, moreover I'm not sure if it belongs in yum. I think > > it would be perfectly reasonable to have a short script that reads a > > set > > of yum repositories and returns to you the newest packages (keyed on > > name, arch) from that set. > > > > It's probably 2 hours of work at most. > > > > -sv > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Yum mailing list > > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
