Good day, all, yum-pull is a script I wrote to mirror rpm repositories locally, allowing you to save bandwidth and disk space. As of version 0.13, here are the features: - Supports Fedora Core 1, 2, and 3 (both i386 and x86_64), Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, and 10.1 (i386), and Redhat 7.3, 8, and 9. - Provides the following repositories for as many of the above distributions as are available: atrpms, ccrma, core, dag, dries, extras, freshrpms, jpackage, livna, local, newrpms, openpkg, updates, wstearns, and ximian. - creates the lines you need to add to /etc/yum.conf on the clients - creates repository headers for old yum, new yum, and apt (and so supports yum, yumi, apt, synaptic, rug, red-carpet, and up2date clients). - optional bandwidth limiting - randomly selects an available mirror to spread load around (and retries up to three times with random mirrors in case a few are unavailable) - pulls files via rsync to reduce minimize outbound bandwidth - deletes old rpms to save space (and remembers them so they won't be downloaded again) - hardlinks duplicates to save space - runs as a non-root user on the mirror server - builds html indexes of the rpms (although this is a bit dodgy at the moment, I need to update the html indexing tool to handle huge numbers of rpms) Dag, thanks for mentioning yam (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/). I took a look at it; it looks like the overall goal of providing local repositories is the same, but your tool and mine differ in what we provide to some degree. Yours supports PXE and network booting, mine doesn't. I have a sense I support more repositories. We support different core OS's. I think it's good both are available for users with different needs. Does anyone have any feeling about the directory layout of a universal repository? I couldn't seem to find an authoritative source, and so tried the following for current versions of yum-pull: `-- fedora `-- linux |-- 1 | |-- i386 | | |-- atrpms | | | |-- headers | | | |-- packages | | | `-- repodata | | |-- ccrma | | | |-- headers | | | |-- packages | | | `-- repodata , etc. By having the "headers" and "packages" under each repository name, thes cound be nfs/samba/bind mounted right under /var/cache/yum. :-) Any feedback about this? I'd love to have a universal layout we all agree on someday - wouldn't it save bandwidth on all of us if we came up with a standard layout that was accessible via round robin dns? Is that what ayo was supposed to do? If you have a distribution or repository I'm not yet supporting, I'd be glad to add support. Please find a few rsync URLs where the content can be found and I'll be glad to add it. Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Linux is is like a wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wstearns@xxxxxxxxx). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------
