On 19/09/10 17:26, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
[...] 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.
This elitist attitude is what pisses me off most about the Arch community but I must admit that you sir just took it to the next level. I'll answer your question anyway. It's pretty easy to create a local mirror. But in your haste to show off your holyness you forgot that the issue isn't about creating a mirror, it's about doing it properly without causing issues for upstream. Your idea about throwing an rsync command at is does things like sync the entire mirror(as-is recommended in the NewMirrors wiki) which I'm sure isn't what you actually want if you're going to create a local mirror and this will undoubtedly just waste bandwidth for the mirror, after-all, if it's the packages you want then why would you go and sync the ISOs or even the sources?
Now, I've stated my personal use-case and I' sure other have similar and other use-cases for having a local mirror, so I guess you have no argument against it other than it's something else that isn't useful to you so should be available to anyone else...
Now, If you think it's a good idea to keep trolling as opposed to go and read what the actual issues are then please continue you are free to do so.
