Agreed. But, will "yum install" work if we do not have content in those folders? What about the ISOs? Running the "--delete" deletes the ISOs as well. Is there way to keep the ISOs inspite of using this flag? Will omitting the "--delete" flag make our server unsuitable to become a public mirror? Regards HASSAN On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Prof. P. Sriram <sriram at ae.iitm.ac.in>wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Nyamul Hassan wrote: > > Is it ok to run the rsync without the "--delete" flag? > > Not a very good idea since you will keep accumulating outdated content - > instead of keeping only the latest version of packages, you will end up > keeping every version that is ever released (sort of). > > -- > sriram > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20100316/194979ca/attachment-0006.html>