[Fedora] Local Copy of Repository

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 05:27:14 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 22:52 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> das wrote:
> > I want to keep a local copy of the Fedora 7 repository, only the i386
> > branch. This will be updated in regular intervals, that I can break it
> > into DVD-s (or, even CD-s) and write them, and after installing F7 in a
> > machine, the 'yum' can be run on these DVD-s. 
> >
> > Now, can anyone please suggest a very simple way of doing this thing?
>     You can use rsync with any of the mirrors to keep a local copy.  I 
> have a shell script that I run every so often:
> 
> ~:> cat rsync.sh
> echo "Getting Fedora Core 7 Updates...";
> echo -e "********************************\n";
> rsync --verbose --progress --archive \
> --partial --delete --delete-excluded \
> --exclude SRPMS/ \
> --exclude ppc/ \
> --exclude ppc64/ \
> --exclude x86_64/ \
> --exclude i386/debug/ \
> --exclude i386/repodata/ \
> rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/7/ "/home/Fedora 7/Updates/";
> 
> 
>     This will fetch just the i386 folder from mirrors.kernel.org and 
> dump it into /home/Fedora7/Updates.  I suggest you look at the actual 
> mirror first to see what folder they have and what the full path is to 
> the repository - each one is different.  And some places won't mirror 
> everything either, so you have to look and then tell rsync what you want 
> excluded...

Sweet! I'm keeping this post in my "important" Fedora folder! Thanx, Ric

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