On 05-01-12 17:19, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 01/05/2012 03:07 PM, Ferry Huberts wrote: >> Hi list >> >> I'm mirroring some centos trees for my site. >> I've seen that currently the (for example) 6 directory links to the 6.2 >> directory. >> >> How about reversing that: let 6 always contain the latest and let 6.2 >> (latest) link to the 6 (base)? > > It is much easier to populate 6.x and then just change symlink. In your > suggestion, they would have to move all files from 6 to 6.x, then > populate 6 with new files. during that last period, we would not be able > to use yum. > >> >> There is at least the advantage (for me) that I only have to rsync a >> single tree (base). Also I think it's much clearer :-) > > I only sync 6 , not 6.x. There is no need if you anly want latest. 6 > anyway points to latest 6.x, I do not see what your problem can bee. After reading this and checking the rsync man page again, I rediscovered the -L option. After trying that it seems to work great for me. Thanks for the hint :-) > > Actually, I use mrepo and ISO files for base repo, and rsync only > updates, and other repo's. > > -- Ferry Huberts