Mirroring tools

[David Timms]

orion at cora.nwra.com wrote:
> I'd like to try to reduce the amount of packages that I mirror locally,
> especially with the ever increasing amount of large game packages.  Has
> anyone thought about a tool that could take a list of packages names
> generated by something like pungi and generate a include list suitable for
> rsync?  Then you could do something like:
> 
> rsync --include-from rpms_I_want --exclude \*.rpm
> 
> Currently I periodically update an exclude list by hand, but this is
> getting tiresome.
> 
> Just thought about using the output of 'yum groupinfo games' and the like
> to generate exclude lists.  Maybe that will be easier and sufficient.

Would the rsync option for only updating existing files be useful, along 
with fuzzy ?

DaveT.