Michael A. Peters wrote: > Phil Schaffner wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 21:35 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> you could potentially replace most of that article with a 2 line script >>> running reposync. Since we ship it, might be worth talking about it. >> Well, hope there is some value to the content about the client side. >> Admittedly there are many ways to skin the cat (all equally odious to >> the cat - to quote an old co-worker). > > Does reposync let you exclude the debug packages? OK - since it uses yum, it looks like it may be able to follow any exclude rules fed to it. I suspect though that in reality, using rsync is better, reposync won't grab files that aren't served by yum (like the iso images needed for remote installs etc. - though those can be copied from the DVD)