[CentOS] CentOS 5.5/i386/32-bit CD installation hickups

[Boris Epstein]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote:
> 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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Thanks, Stephen, looks like an excellent set of instructions. I may
well try that.

Why should I disable the default repositories, though?

Boris.