On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0700, John Doe wrote:
From: Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com By the way - since it sounds like you have the experience - how easy is it to mirror CentOS repositories locally? How much space do I need, roughly?
I mirror it manualy (os from the DVDs and update with a simple rsync), although there is a createrepo package for mirroring repos.
You don't need a createrepo or anything else like; just a simple rsync.
I also copy the DVD and updates.
For i386: % du -hs /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5 3.9G /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5
% du -hs /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/i386 1.7G /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/i386
For x86_64: % du -hs /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5_x86_64 4.4G /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5_x86_64
% du -hs /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/x86_64 1.9G /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/x86_64
The rsync script is pretty simple; I run it from cron regularly.
#!/bin/sh cd /RedHat/updates/centos5.5 || exit
rsync --delete -rlptDzHq rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/updates/i386 . rsync --delete -rlptDzHq rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/updates/x86_64 .
Then I can set up my yum.repos.d similar to this:
[c5-local] name=CentOS-$releasever - Media baseurl=file:///RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 protect=1 priority=1 enabled=1
[update-local] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates local baseurl=file:///RedHat/updates/centos$releasever/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 protect=1 priority=1 enabled=1
And, of course, disable the default repositories.
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Thanks, Stephen, looks like an excellent set of instructions. I may well try that.
Why should I disable the default repositories, though?
Boris.