[K12OSN] rsyncing repositories

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 14:35 -0700, Rob Owens wrote:

> rsync -Pav --exclude=iso
> k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::testing/5.0.0-32bit/ ./
> 
> This works well for http type network installs.  But I
> don't think I'm fully utilizing my local tree as an
> update source.  The only repo I've successfully
> pointed to my local rsync'd tree is the k12ltsp repo. 

I think that's the only one that would be included in
the copy.  As an alternative you can configure a squid
proxy to hold large files and tell yum to use it either
with the config file or a command line export like:
http_proxy=http://myproxy.mydomain.com:3128 yum update
The way the fedora uses a mirrorlist kind of defeats this
unless you change it to always use the same server.  It
works OK with the Centos-based way of using round-robin
DNS for the mirrors so the URLs look the same to the cache.

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  Les Mikesell
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