rsync size

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Thanks,

I'll give it a try so that I can update my own systems from my downloads 
from yam.

Sound good.
Lonnie

Mike Ramirez wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 17:06, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
>  
>
>>Strange.
>>
>>Seemed like more than that (5.5G) if you included everything:
>>
>>
>>  Index of ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Index of ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core
>>
>>Up to higher level directory
>>Directory: 1         03/01/2004     12:00:00 AM
>>Directory: 2         05/14/2004     11:18:00 AM
>>Directory: development         09/13/2004     12:26:00 PM
>>Directory: test         07/09/2004     08:14:00 PM
>>Directory: updates         05/18/2004     01:56:00 PM
>>
>>especially in the development directory which has many platforms.
>>
>>I have been reading over the YAM docs but the light bulb has not come on 
>>yet to really show me how it is any better than simple rsync in a cron 
>>script.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Lonnie
>>    
>>
>
>Its smaller becuase I didn't included anything more than I need.  I just
>have the RPMS for core and updates.  nothing from development or
>testing.  I don't need them or play with them.  I'm just sticking to
>whats stable. 
>
>The selling point to me on yam is that it creates yum and apt headers
>made a mirror of my chosen repos without too much of a headache.  
>
>In minutes (well days 20kb/s down) I had a working mirror to update my
>network.  With the 20kb/s down its advantages to dload once, update
>many.  
>
> I configured yum.conf to point to my yam folders and thats it.  I run
>yam -uxg to and it updates everything and recreates the headers.  You
>can set this in a cron also ;)
>
>Mike Ramirez
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>