Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > I figured I try if I can mirror the base and updates repos locally. > There's no tutorial for that, only one about creating your > own repo of > packages which is not the same. So, I just mirrored all the > stuff with > wget and changed the baseurl in the repo files and hoped > that's enough. > Works. So easy you don't need a tutorial. > *But* I then realized that the updates directory contains > *all* updates, > not just the latest. Which means if I don't regularly check I > may get old > versions mirrored I don't want. It also means that I get a > lot of unwanted > files at the time I start to mirror. And I cannot delete old files as > these would again be mirrored in. > An obvious solution would be to check each day and tell wget > (or whatever > software I use) to ignore files older than 24 hours. Still, > this means the > initial download has to get them all and I have to delete all > unwanted old > files manually. > Is there a better solution? Yes a lot of past versions are kept in the repo, but if you filter those out then it wouldn't be a "mirror" then? Be careful with the "repomd.xml" file, delete it before starting to mirror to make sure it doesn't get out-of-sync, because, at least on my end, I find that wget via http doesn't compare time stamps just sizes/names and the sha1 checksums are always the same length. Here's a little script: #!/bin/sh VERSION=5.0 mkdir -p /Software/CentOS/$VERSION/updates/i386 >/dev/null 2>&1 mkdir -p /Software/CentOS/$VERSION/updates/x86_64 >/dev/null 2>&1 rm -f /Software/CentOS/$VERSION/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml >/dev/null 2>&1 rm -f /Software/CentOS/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml >/dev/null 2>&1 wget -nH --cache=off --cut-dirs=4 -m -c -R gif,png,^index.html* -I ^/centos/$VERSION/updates/i386/ -P /Software/CentOS/$VERSION/updates/i386 http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$VERSION/updates/i386/ wget -nH --cache=off --cut-dirs=4 -m -c -R gif,png,^index.html* -I ^/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/ -P /Software/CentOS/$VERSION/updates/x86_64 http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/ -Ross ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.