[CentOS] CentOS 5.5/i386/32-bit CD installation hickups
Stephen Harris
lists at spuddy.org
Wed Jul 28 11:23:01 UTC 2010
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0700, John Doe wrote:
> > From: Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>
> > By the way - since it sounds like you have the experience - how easy
> > is it to mirror CentOS repositories locally? How much space do I need,
> > roughly?
> I mirror it manualy (os from the DVDs and update with a simple rsync), although
> there is a createrepo package for mirroring repos.
You don't need a createrepo or anything else like; just a simple rsync.
I also copy the DVD and updates.
For i386:
% du -hs /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5
3.9G /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5
% du -hs /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/i386
1.7G /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/i386
For x86_64:
% du -hs /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5_x86_64
4.4G /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5_x86_64
% du -hs /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/x86_64
1.9G /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/x86_64
The rsync script is pretty simple; I run it from cron regularly.
#!/bin/sh
cd /RedHat/updates/centos5.5 || exit
rsync --delete -rlptDzHq rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/updates/i386 .
rsync --delete -rlptDzHq rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/updates/x86_64 .
Then I can set up my yum.repos.d similar to this:
[c5-local]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Media
baseurl=file:///RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
protect=1
priority=1
enabled=1
[update-local]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates local
baseurl=file:///RedHat/updates/centos$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
protect=1
priority=1
enabled=1
And, of course, disable the default repositories.
--
rgds
Stephen
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