On 09/19/2010 11:45 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:46:13PM -0400, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
There is nothing preventing you from creating a local mirror. If you
can't figure out how to create a local mirror using the resource
available, you probably shouldn't be using arch.
Now, there's a supportive answer if I ever heard one. That's the way
to get more people interested in using arch.
Most distros like to build up their presence and increase the numbers
and usage. Obviously if everyone goes out there and attempts to build
local mirrors and all, that would put a big drain on the arch package
update process. I don't think many people are doubting that and maybe
it should be discouraged however. But the withholding of technical
knowledge with such arrogance is in poor taste if you ask me. Like
others have been saying all along now, the original information was
pulled and no technical explanation was ever offered for why it was
wrong.
Now because of all this "secrecy" (in appearance), I've increased my
curiosity and may look into building a local mirror just so I know how
to do it. Had the thing on the wiki site been corrected, I would have
probably just read it and kept it in the back of my mind for a day
when I would really need to do it.
As I posted on the forum... How hard is it to run rsync and look at the
man page for rsync? rsync is the *only* command that is needed to create
a local mirror.
We want to discourage this behavior as much as possible and it is really
quite trivial to setup a mirror.
Setup a local mirror
1. rsync to local dir (look at the developer's wiki for mirrors and the
proper rysnc arguments)
2. Set up webserver to serve local dir (if on a lan)
3. Set local mirror url in mirrorlist
4. Alternatively use Server = file:///mnt/media/mirror/$repo/os/x86_64
in pacman.conf or mirrorlist
That is all that has to be done.
If one is going to be creating a local mirror, he/she should really have
this basic knowledge.
