On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Stephen Harris <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0700, John Doe wrote:
>> > From: Boris Epstein <borepstein@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > By the way - since it sounds like you have the experience - how easy
>> > is it to mirror CentOS repositories locally? How much space do I need,
>> > roughly?
>
>> I mirror it manualy (os from the DVDs and update with a simple rsync), although
>> there is a createrepo package for mirroring repos.
>
> You don't need a createrepo or anything else like; just a simple rsync.
>
> I also copy the DVD and updates.
>
> For i386:
> % du -hs /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5
> 3.9G /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5
>
> % du -hs /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/i386
> 1.7G /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/i386
>
> For x86_64:
> % du -hs /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5_x86_64
> 4.4G /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5_x86_64
>
> % du -hs /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/x86_64
> 1.9G /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/x86_64
>
> The rsync script is pretty simple; I run it from cron regularly.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> cd /RedHat/updates/centos5.5 || exit
>
> rsync --delete -rlptDzHq rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/updates/i386 .
> rsync --delete -rlptDzHq rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/updates/x86_64 .
>
> Then I can set up my yum.repos.d similar to this:
>
> [c5-local]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - Media
> baseurl=file:///RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5/
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
> protect=1
> priority=1
> enabled=1
>
> [update-local]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates local
> baseurl=file:///RedHat/updates/centos$releasever/$basearch/
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
> protect=1
> priority=1
> enabled=1
>
> And, of course, disable the default repositories.
>
> --
>
> rgds
> Stephen
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Thanks, Stephen, looks like an excellent set of instructions. I may
well try that.
Why should I disable the default repositories, though?
Boris.
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