Using rsync to maintain local FC10 updates repo

[Bill Davidsen]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>> So I wanted to do a simple rsync against one of the mirrors, and tried 
>> the script:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> rsync -auv 
>> rsync://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/updates/10/i386/ 
>> \
>> --delete --exclude=debug/ /repos/fedora/10/updates/i386
> 
> The rsync paths aren't like the ftp or http paths.  You want:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> rsync -auv rsync://mirrors.usc.edu/fedora/linux/updates/10/i386/ \
> --delete --exclude=debug/ /repos/fedora/10/updates/i386
> 
> Except that this mirror's rsync seems to be broken!  ;)
> 
How does that work? Why don't you need -r to recurse? I tried a small test and 
it doesn't seem to have become the default behavior or anything.

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