Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Apparently, I
> can avoid it when regularly downloading by specifying a timelimit, but I
> can't avoid getting it all when I start a mirror (unless I use a
> filelist).
That wouldn't be a mirror then, would it? :) I suppose, if you're
really wanting to, one thing you could attempt, is what you suggested
and maintain a filelist of what you want (or don't want.) Another
possibility might be to roll your own script to run rsync in a dry-run
mode (-n) and filter the output, then go back and grab what you want
based on that. The dry-run mode will simply tell you what rsync would
transfer without actually doing it. So you can then take the result,
parse it, figureout by version numbers what you want, and then fetch it
all, again through rsync.
But honestly, at that point, I just transfer the whole thing and not
worry about it. It's not like it takes an extremely large amount of
space, at least not to me:
:~> du -h --max-depth=2 CentOS/
110M CentOS/5.0/extras
3.4G CentOS/5.0/updates
32K CentOS/5.0/addons
3.5G CentOS/5.0
3.5G CentOS/
(I exclude everything else from my rsync transfer, 64bit, isos,
etc., etc.)