[CentOS] script to make a CentOS 4.0 respository updates server...

Tue Jun 21 02:57:01 UTC 2005
Paul <subsolar at subsolar.com>

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 20:42 -0500, Mark A. Lewis wrote:
> My bad. Did not read the original post. 

Yes, Virginia, there are some people that sit behind firewalls which
they don't control and will only allow http & ftp and sometimes http
only with a special authentication client installed.

Welcome to life working in a small division in a big company. :)

Paul Berger

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark A. Lewis
> > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:42 PM
> > To: CentOS mailing list
> > Subject: RE: [CentOS] script to make a CentOS 4.0 respository 
> > updates server...
> > 
> > Shouldn't we be using rsync instead of wget? 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: centos-bounces at centos.org
> > > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Paul
> > > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:37 PM
> > > To: CentOS mailing list
> > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] script to make a CentOS 4.0 
> > respository updates 
> > > server...
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 14:14 -0500, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote:
> > > > List, I have a CentOS 4.0 server in my intranet which will
> > > serves as a
> > > > CentOS repository updates, so I need a script to do that 
> > job, I can 
> > > > not use RSYNC. I just want to download CentOS 4.0 updates
> > > every night.
> > > > 
> > > > Can you help me?
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Israel
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > The following script is one I use ...  though it could be 
> > optimized to 
> > > just download the RPMs and use createrepo to recreate the metadata.
> > > 
> > > The script I use is as follows:
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > #
> > > # mirror-centos.sh - Mirror CentOS Linux Updates #
> > > 
> > > # Variables
> > > MIRROR="mirror.cs.wisc.edu"
> > > WBDIR="pub/mirrors/linux/caosity.org/centos"
> > > VERSIONS="4"
> > > ARCHS="SRPMS i386 x86_64"
> > > WBUPDATES="/home/ftp/pub/centos"
> > > PROXY="http://firewall.company.com:8080/"
> > > 
> > > # Limit Transfer Rate to 10K bytes per second MAXRATE="10k"
> > > 
> > > # Do the mirror
> > > for d in $VERSIONS; do
> > >   for y in $ARCHS; do
> > >     cd $WBUPDATES
> > >     ## env http_proxy=$PROXY \
> > >     wget --non-verbose --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=8 --mirror \
> > >      --passive-ftp --limit-rate=$MAXRATE \
> > >      --directory-prefix=$WBUPDATES/$d/updates/$y \
> > >      ftp://$MIRROR/$WBDIR/$d/updates/$y 
> > >      ##--output-file=/tmp/mirror-centos.log
> > > 
> > >     # the RPMS should be checked for valid sigs, not ready for that 
> > > yet
> > >     ##rpm --checksig $WBUPDATES/$d/updates/$y/*.rpm | grep 'NOT OK'
> > >   done
> > > done
> > > 
> > > 
> > > # Done
> > > exit
> > > 
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