[CentOS-devel] mirror setup/layout

[Ferry Huberts]

On 05-01-12 17:19, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> On 01/05/2012 03:07 PM, Ferry Huberts wrote:
>> Hi list
>>
>> I'm mirroring some centos trees for my site.
>> I've seen that currently the (for example) 6 directory links to the 6.2
>> directory.
>>
>> How about reversing that: let 6 always contain the latest and let 6.2
>> (latest) link to the 6 (base)?
>
> It is much easier to populate 6.x and then just change symlink. In your
> suggestion, they would have to move all files from 6 to 6.x, then
> populate 6 with new files. during that last period, we would not be able
> to use yum.
>
>>
>> There is at least the advantage (for me) that I only have to rsync a
>> single tree (base). Also I think it's much clearer :-)
>
> I only sync 6 , not 6.x. There is no need if you anly want latest. 6
> anyway points to latest 6.x, I do not see what your problem can bee.

After reading this and checking the rsync man page again, I rediscovered 
the -L option. After trying that it seems to work great for me.

Thanks for the hint :-)

>
> Actually, I use mrepo and ISO files for base repo, and rsync only
> updates, and other repo's.
>
>

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Ferry Huberts