[Yum] Re: yum mirroring

[seth vidal]

> 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.

hehe.

> 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.

easy way to test.

login to your server and run:
rsync mirror.dulug.duke.edu::archive/pub/yum-repository/redhat/

if you see a list that looks like:
Modules:
 
archive         Everything
redhat-ftp      Red Hat FTP Site
redhat-base     Red Hat FTP Site
redhat-beta     Red Hat Linux beta releases
redhat-rawhide  Rawhide FTP Site
redhat-updates  Updates FTP Site
redhat-contrib  Red Hat, Inc. -- Contrib FTP Site
 
 
 
drwxrwxr-x        4096 2003/07/21 10:37:53 .
drwxrwxr-x        4096 2003/02/15 16:39:17 7.1
drwxrwxr-x        4096 2003/02/15 16:07:01 7.2
drwxrwxr-x        4096 2003/02/15 16:10:25 7.3
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2003/02/15 16:14:37 8.0
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2003/04/04 00:46:13 9
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2003/02/19 12:44:32 phoebe
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2003/07/21 10:38:07 severn
drwxrwxr-x        4096 2003/04/03 13:29:24 updates

then it should work.

-sv