Agreed. But, will "yum install" work if we do not have content in those folders?<div><br></div><div>What about the ISOs? Running the "--delete" deletes the ISOs as well. Is there way to keep the ISOs inspite of using this flag?<div>
<br></div><div>Will omitting the "--delete" flag make our server unsuitable to become a public mirror?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>HASSAN</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Prof. P. Sriram <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sriram@ae.iitm.ac.in">sriram@ae.iitm.ac.in</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Nyamul Hassan wrote:<br>
> Is it ok to run the rsync without the "--delete" flag?<br>
<br>
</div>Not a very good idea since you will keep accumulating outdated content -<br>
instead of keeping only the latest version of packages, you will end up<br>
keeping every version that is ever released (sort of).<br>
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sriram<br>
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