[CentOS] Why so many updates already for CentOS 5

[Akemi Yagi]

On 4/16/07, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> > Other than rsync, what batch mirror tools are in CentOS 5?
>
> lftp - works with ftp and http and does http better than wget does.
>
> Ralph

I second this.  I had difficulties with wget.  Just couldn't get it to
mirror correctly.  Have been using lftp to maintain my local repo's.
This one-liner mirrors the i386 tree, for example.

lftp -e 'open http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4/updates && mirror -c
--delete  i386 && exit'

Akemi