Re: [K12OSN] Re: up2date problem SOLVED

[Ben Nickell <twinprism athena physics isu edu>]

dalen wrote:

> Ben,
>     The script I use is below. As you can see, the script is in 
> cron.daily so it is executed once a day.  The script runs rsync twice 
> to sync base and updates.  I exclude some things with the --exclude 
> option.
> I created /home/mirror/yum-repository/fedora/base and 
> /home/mirror/yum-repository/fedora/updates to store the files and then 
> made a symbolic link called mirror in /var/www/html/ so apache would 
> see it.  Then I added http://myserver/mirror/yum-repository/base and 
> http://myserver/mirror/yum-repository/updates to yum.conf on the 
> clients and commented out the old entries.
> You can adjust the mirror name/path and local path as needed.  Hope 
> this is useful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dale
>
> [root viewlib root]# cat /etc/cron.daily/rsync-yum-repository
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/rsync --verbose --progress --stats --archive --partial 
> --exclude SRPMS/ --exclude dosutils/ --exclude images/ --exclude 
> isolinux/ mirrors.kernel.org::fedora/core/1/i386/os/ 
> /home/mirror/yum-repository/fedora/base/
>
> /usr/bin/rsync --verbose --progress --stats --archive --delete 
> --exclude debug/ --exclude SRPMS/ --partial 
> mirrors.kernel.org::fedora/core/updates/1/i386/ 
> /home/mirror/yum-repository/fedora/updates/
> [root viewlib root]#
>
> note that the script has two long lines where everything is space 
> separated (mozilla mail wraps the 2 lines into 4 lines).
Dale,

Thank you very much for sharing your script,  it will save me a lot of 
time looking up appropriate rsync options.  

One more question for anyone
If I wanted to add my own packages,  is the best way to do it to set up 
another directory holding our 'local' package repository, and add 
another entry to yum.conf to the clients I want to access it? 

Thanks to the great link Ken Barber posted at
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_article/yum_article/
I can figure out how to "yummify" the result. And thanks the author, 
Robert G. Brown for documenting yum's usage so well.

Thanks,
Ben