[Spacewalk-list] Need for a lightweight mirroring solution

Miroslav Suchý msuchy at redhat.com
Wed Jul 23 08:40:43 UTC 2008


Mike McCune wrote:
> Mirror F9 i386 everything repository:
> 
>   pulp mirror 
> --input=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/i386/os/Packages/\ 
> 
>     --output=file:///var/www/repo/f9-i386
> 
> Mirror Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 to an ISO:
> 
> pulp mirror --input=rhn://rhel-i386-server-5 
> --output=iso://root/RHEL5-PACKAGES.ISO
> 
Not interested for me. I ignore this.

> Mirror Fedora 9 into a Spacewalk Channel:
> 
>   pulp mirror 
> --input=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/i386/os/Packages/\ 
> 
>     --output=spacewalk://somespacewalk.example.com  --username=admin 
> --password=redhat
What is wrong on:
mkdir /tmp/mirror;
wget -nd -r -l 1 -A .rpm -P /tmp/mirror \
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/i386/os/Packages/
rhnpush -d/tmp/mirror --username=admin --password=redhat 
--server=somespacewalk.example.com

Hmm, it seems pulp is not for me. It seems to my as duplicate and 
redundant work. I will stay with bash and wget.

-- 
Miroslav Suchy
RHN Satellite Engineering, Red Hat




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