Ah! Thank God there is a inclusion option in exclusion list :-) <a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync">http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync</a><br><br>#INCLUSIONS
<br>#Only get i386, ia64, x86_64<br>+ updates/i386**<br>+ updates/ia64**<br>+ updates/x86_64**<br><br>#EXCLUSIONS<br>Readme.txt<br>addons/<br>apt/<br>centosplus/<br>contrib/<br>csgfs/<br>docs/<br>extras/<br>isos/<br>os/<br>
testing/<br>SRPMS/<br>alpha/<br>ppc/<br>s390/<br>s390x/<br><br>Thanks,<br>Vijay Avarachen<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vijay Avarachen</b> <<a href="mailto:vavarachen@gmail.com">
vavarachen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Stephen,<br> Thank you very much for your help. It works pretty good :-) but has a few glitches. I read the rsync man pages and according to it the exclusion list contains files and folder name patterns to be excluded. The exclusion works but it still creates symlinks :-(
<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">$ du -s -h *</span><br>0 2<br>0 3<br>0 3.1<br>0 3.3<br>0 3.4<br>0 3.5<br>0 4<br>439M 4.2<br>0 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-2<br>4.0K RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
<br>0 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4<br>4.0K TIME<br>4.0K timestamp.txt<br><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>Is there a way to stop it from creating these symlinks that dont' point to anything. Here is my exclusion list:
<span class="q"><br>/2.1/<br>/2/<br>/3.1/<br>/3.3/<br>/3.4/<br>/3.5/<br>/3.6/<br>/3/<br></span>/4/<br>/4.0/<br>/4.1/<br>/4.3beta/<br>/HEADER.images/<br>/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-2/<br>/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4/<br>/build/<br>/graphics/
<br>/HEADER.html/<br>
/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3/<br>/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4/<br><br>#4.2 excludes<br>/4.2/Readme.txt<br>/4.2/addons/<br>/4.2/apt/<br>/4.2/centosplus/<br>/4.2/contrib/<br>/4.2/csgfs/<br>/4.2/docs/<br>/4.2/extras/<br>/4.2/isos/<br>/4.2/os/
<br>/4.2/testing/<br>#Only get i386, ia64, x86_64<br>/4.2/updates/SRPMS/<br>/4.2/updates/alpha/<br>/4.2/updates/ppc/<br>/4.2/updates/s390/<br>/4.2/updates/s390x/<br><br>Thanks,<br><span class="sg">Vijay Avarachen</span><div>
<span class="e" id="q_1089df242a4a9f76_4"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 1/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen Weyland</b> <<a href="mailto:stephen.weyland@mercuryblue.com.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">stephen.weyland@mercuryblue.com.au
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span>
Vijay Avarachen wrote:
<blockquote cite="http://mid576c9ac40601050808j499900f0j7d1b8b7de6ddac17@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Hello,<br>
My environment is using CentOS 4.2 on all workstations and I
would like to setup a local mirror just for the updates. I only x86,
x86_64 and ia64 architectures. How can I setup a rsync mirror of the
updates folder for only these architectures? I am very new to rsync,
so please apologize if this is a very ignorant question.
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></span>
I just finished figuring this out and documenting, so here you go. You
can probably fine tune it as this is my first attempt.<br>
<br>
### How to use rsync to create a local mirror of the insallation files
for CentOS, of course this could be used for anything else with
modifications.<br>
### We are going to create 2 files and edit a 3rd<br>
### 1- Create a directory to store some files in.<br>
### 2- A script to run rsync --- "update.sh"<br>
### 3- An exclusion list so we don't download a bunch of stuff we don't
want --- "rsync-exclude.list"<br>
### 4- We need to schedule the update to run by modifying ---
/etc/crontab, (crontab -e would be better)<br>
<br>
1- Create a directory to store the files "update.sh" and
"rsync-exclude.list"<br>
mkdir /opt/mirror<br>
<br>
2- Create "update.sh" script to run rsync<br>
# See a list of mirrors at
<a href="http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13</a><br>
# --delete means delete files locally that no longer exist on the mirror<br>
vi /opt/mirror/update.sh<br>
rsync -aqzH --exclude-from=/opt/mirror/rsync-exclude.list --delete
rsync.planetmirror.com::centos /var/ftp/pub/centos/<br>
# make it executable<br>
chmod 700 /opt/mirror/update.sh<br>
<br>
3- Create an exclude list<br>
vi /opt/mirror/rsync-exclude.list<br>
# add a list of the files you want to be excluded in the rsync process<br>
# files with a slash at the beginning are referenced to the root of the
rsync directory you connected to.<br>
# in this case <a href="http://rsync.planetmirror.com/centos" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">rsync.planetmirror.com/centos</a> (the ::centos above is the
/centos here)<br>
# files with a trailing slash indicate any directory with that name
anywhere. e.g "apt/" will skip any directory in any sub-tree named apt<br>
<br>
/2.1/<br>
/2/<br>
/3.1/<br>
/3.3/<br>
/3.4/<br>
/3.5/<br>
/3.6/<br>
/3/<br>
# The following need to be excluded from /4/<br>
apt/<br>
docs/<br>
isos/<br>
# The following need to be excluded from all directories they are
present in, like /4/os/ and /4/updates/ ... We only want the i386
directory.<br>
SRPMS/<br>
alpha/<br>
ia64/<br>
ppc/<br>
s390/<br>
s390x/<br>
x86_64/<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
4- Add a line to /etc/crontab to run the job once a day or once a week
or whenever, the following shows run on the 1st minute, 1st hour, Sunday<br>
<br>
1 1 * * sun root /opt/mirror/update.sh<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="http://mid576c9ac40601050808j499900f0j7d1b8b7de6ddac17@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"><span>Thank you,<br>
Vijay Avarachen<br clear="all">
<br>
-- <br>
"Knowledge is the only wealth that grows as you spend it, and
diminishes as you save it."<br>
-- ancient Sanskrit saying
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