Kai Schaetzl wrote:
I figured I try if I can mirror the base and updates repos locally. There's no tutorial for that, only one about creating your own repo of packages which is not the same. So, I just mirrored all the stuff with wget and changed the baseurl in the repo files and hoped that's enough. Works. So easy you don't need a tutorial. *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?
Yes a lot of past versions are kept in the repo, but if you filter those out then it wouldn't be a "mirror" then?
Be careful with the "repomd.xml" file, delete it before starting to mirror to make sure it doesn't get out-of-sync, because, at least on my end, I find that wget via http doesn't compare time stamps just sizes/names and the sha1 checksums are always the same length.
Here's a little script:
#!/bin/sh
VERSION=5.0
mkdir -p /Software/CentOS/$VERSION/updates/i386 >/dev/null 2>&1 mkdir -p /Software/CentOS/$VERSION/updates/x86_64 >/dev/null 2>&1
rm -f /Software/CentOS/$VERSION/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml >/dev/null 2>&1 rm -f /Software/CentOS/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml >/dev/null 2>&1
wget -nH --cache=off --cut-dirs=4 -m -c -R gif,png,^index.html* -I ^/centos/$VERSION/updates/i386/ -P /Software/CentOS/$VERSION/updates/i386 http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$VERSION/updates/i386/ wget -nH --cache=off --cut-dirs=4 -m -c -R gif,png,^index.html* -I ^/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/ -P /Software/CentOS/$VERSION/updates/x86_64 http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/
-Ross
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