[Yum] Re: yum mirroring

[Aleksander Demko]

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 16:17, Robert G. Brown wrote:
...
> wget is pretty simple as well, but you have to tell it to decend
> recursively to an appropriate depth or use the --mirror option.
> Something like:
> 
>   wget --mirror http://whatever.repository.youlike.org -o
> /tmp/mirror_log

Yeah, that doesn't work quite right. Without parameter fiddling, I get
non-repository files (.html, etc) as well as it may go UP the url and
continue to suck down. I didn't realize this until I pulled down 3+ gig
from Duke... had stuff like 7.x updates to (useless to me, as we have no
<8 machines)... luckily we get like a megabyte a second from you guys.

Also, I don't think wget has the guts to actually remove files that are
no longer on the repository.

> 
> should do it.  You have to look to see if rsync works for each
> repository you might want to mirror.  Where it works it is "better".  It
> is also reasonable to ask permission before mirroring regularly from a
> public repository that doesn't already grant it openly.  Some sites have
> spare bandwidth and a public-spiritedness, others don't.

I've never used rsync, but I don't think I can use it here. Our heavily
DMZ'ed public http server can really only do HTTP requests, and even
those I back tunnel over ssh to a proxy. I think I'm restricted to
HTTP-pure mirroring techniques.

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