On 11/16/2011 11:40 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >>>> The point I think john is trying to make is that you can also just put >>>> the updates and CR repos on a DVD (it might not fit) or usb hard drive / >>>> key (better idea as this can hold several GB). >>>> >>>> Then you can put that on the network and update from there. >>> >>> Is there a scripted approach to this that will always get a consistent >>> snapshot copy even if you run it while updates are being added in the >>> repositories? Waiting for a new DVD spin avoids that issue. >>> >>> If the networks don't have to be absolutely isolated, you might also >>> fire up a squid proxy on a box with internet access and point yum to >>> it, or perhaps use ssh port-forwarding to reach a network with an >>> internet proxy. >>> >> When we update the mirrors on mirror.centos.org ... we put the packages >> on first, then the metadata. >> >> This approach means that during our rsyncs, we always have consistent >> installs ... except that the packages could be newer until a given sync >> finishes (but you should be able to install from the repo at all times). > > That timing must not always be propagated to other mirrors - at least > I've hit missing dependencies in yum updates that fix themselves in a > day or so. That would be more annoying in a situation where you had > to make new copies and transport them somewhere. > Right ... we don't control how external mirrors sync from mirror.centos.org. We also usually have our mirrors synced fairly fast (we have a speed chart (map) that we use to get all the mirrors synced as fast as we can based on connect speed to one another) ... but it can take a while to get that synced to public mirrors .. since there are hundreds of them.
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