On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner at ieee.org> wrote: > Created a new HowTo on running your own local mirror: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalMirror > > Comments and (constructive :-) criticism are invited. Good work, Phil. <- constructive note. You might want to add 'lftp' as an alternative method to rsync. I have been using lftp because rsync at work is capped at a miserably low speed. Also, there are more http / ftp sites available than rsync sites. It is also a one-liner. For example: lftp -e 'open http://<some.site>/centos/ && mirror -c --delete 5.3 && exit' will mirror the whole 5.3 under the remote centos/ directory. Regarding the baseurl=file:/ line in the .repo file, I always thought it required three slashes. I now realize that a single slash is all you need. :) Thanks for the useful article. Akemi
