[Yum] yum-suck available

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 16:24, Aleksander Demko wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 21:45, Tom Diehl wrote:
> > If you can do ssh you can usually do rsync. Just add a "-e ssh" to the 
> > rsync command line. rsync is a truely wonderful program for mirroring
> > stuff.
> 
> Almost. The DMZed machine itself cannot open ANY sockets to the outside
> world - only respond to httpd and ssh requests. So what I did is I
> ssh'ed INTO it and used -R port:some.proxy:port so the server tunnels
> http requests back down my ssh connection and to a proxy, and then to
> the rest of the world.
> 
> After giving up with wget, I decided to just hack together my own
> yum/http mirroring tool. It's quite a hack, but seems to work and is
> available at:

Hey,
 I just looked through what you were doing.

neat idea.

Summary of it:
grab the header.info file for a repository.
traverse the list and build out the .hdrs files and the .rpms
corresponding to each and download.

nifty.

a couple of pointers that will help.
look at clientStuff.stripENVRA()

that does all the LHS stripping of header.info

Then you have:

epoch, name, ver, rel, arch and the relative path to the rpm.

then you can rebuild from epoch, name, ver, rel, arch the .hdr filename
and get it.

I would suggest using that function to grab the info and using
urlgrabber.py from yum to do the grabbing.

you should be able to do the whole script in a lot less lines if you use
those few functions.


-sv