[CentOS] Re: Centos 4.0 updates repo & local repository creation

Sun Feb 4 20:17:59 UTC 2007
toracat <toracat at roadrunner.com>

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:09:32 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> I used Centos 4.0 iso to setup my systems and updated till date. I assume
> they are equivalent to systems created with Centos 4.4
> 
> Now, I am planning to setup a full local repository of Centos updates,
> extras, centosplus etc. (not isos...as I intend to download isos only when
> Centos 5 becomes available.
> 
> Please advise what directories I should download for my local repository,
> as the download tree has updates, extras, centosplus repos for 4.0, 4.1,
> 4.2, 4. & 4.4 & so on. Please advise the appropriate rsync commands, so
> that I can use it, so as to exclude isos and include the rest.
> 
> A smal comment on how the repos relate to version numbers would be really
> appreciated.
> 
> With best regards.
> Sanjay.

I have been using lftp to mirror CentOS files.  For example, the following
one-liner mirrors CentOS4 updates i386 directory:

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

You can exclude directories by using the -x flag.

Akemi