Kai Schaetzl wrote:
*But* I then realized that the updates directory contains *all* updates, not just the latest. Which means if I don't regularly check I may get old versions mirrored I don't want. It also means that I get a lot of unwanted files at the time I start to mirror. And I cannot delete old files as these would again be mirrored in. An obvious solution would be to check each day and tell wget (or whatever software I use) to ignore files older than 24 hours. Still, this means the initial download has to get them all and I have to delete all unwanted old files manually. Is there a better solution?
Use rsync. I keep a local copy of the updates, specific to my platform. I'm also very specific in WHAT I want locally as you'll see in the following script. I use the Stanford University's mirror.
:~> cat rsync.sh echo "Getting Centos 5.0 Updates..."; echo -e "*****************************\n"; rsync --progress --archive \ --partial --delete --delete-excluded \ --exclude centosplus/ \ --exclude fasttrack/ \ --exclude isos/ \ --exclude isos-dvd/ \ --exclude os/ \ --exclude updates/SRPMS/ \ --exclude updates/x86_64/ \ --exclude addons/SRPMS/ \ --exclude addons/x86_64/ \ --exclude extras/SRPMS/ \ --exclude extras/x86_64/ \ mirror.stanford.edu::mirrors/centos/5.0 /home/CentOS/;