Is there a way I can keep a complete mirror of old/new releases of CentOS 4/5 automagically? In other words I would pull the old files from the vault site when needed, and new files from one of the other mirrors. I've seen/used a few scripts but rsync just stomps the old releases with the latest. The key issue here is having new release detection happen programmatically so I don't need to manage it once it's setup. Before I reinvent the wheel, I just wanted to see if there was a known method of accomplishing this.
Q. Why? A. Because I have customers that need access to older OS builds as their products do not move as quickly as CentOS.
Thanks in advance.
Chris
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Chris Miller centos@scratchspace.com wrote:
Q. Why? A. Because I have customers that need access to older OS builds as their products do not move as quickly as CentOS.
These folks must be slower than molasses at the south pole (before global warming)....
;-)
mhr
Chris Miller wrote on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:56:43 -0700:
Is there a way I can keep a complete mirror of old/new releases of CentOS 4/5 automagically?
Not sure what you mean. If you want to keep all old, superceded files you should make a copy of each daily rsync. If what you mean by release is 5.1, 5.2 etc. I guess you would need to rsync against 5.1 instead of 5.
Kai
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Chris Miller wrote on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:56:43 -0700:
Is there a way I can keep a complete mirror of old/new releases of CentOS 4/5 automagically?
Not sure what you mean. If you want to keep all old, superceded files you should make a copy of each daily rsync. If what you mean by release is 5.1, 5.2 etc. I guess you would need to rsync against 5.1 instead of 5.
or don't use the --delete switch on rsync, so files that have vanished off the source won't be deleted.
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