[Yum] yum's awesome, ideas

[seth vidal]

> If the original machine has an rsync server running, you should be
> able to connect to that.  If you're doing it via login access, you can
> do something like this:
> 
> rsync -avz -e /usr/bin/ssh host.foo.com:/etc ./foo-etc
> 

If the other machine has an rsync server running then you don't need the
-e /usr/bin/ssh

to rsync 7.3 and updates from the public rsync server on
mirror.dulug.duke.edu into the current directory.

you would run:

rsync -av mirror.dulug.duke.edu::archive/pub/yum-repository/7.3 .
then
rsync -av mirror.dulug.duke.edu::archive/pub/yum-repository/updates/7.3 .

-sv