[Yum] rsync syntax confusion

[jcosta at lendleaserei.com]

I'm trying to setup an internal FTP server for [base] and [updates] to
other internal RH9 boxen.  From what I have read, there are two ways to do
this:

1)  Get the RPMS trees from RH directly, and run yum-arch against the local
trees.
2)  Rsync against the Duke repository.

I'm trying to do the latter, and cannot seem to nail the syntax for
mirroring. I'm assuming that I need to grab everything at the Yum headers
level and below (found at URL:
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/). Is that a
correct assumption? I only need
the RPMS, not iso's, SRPMS, etc...

Since the syntax is rsync -auv SERVERNAME::MODULE /local/ftp/path, how do I
know what MODULE name to choose at Duke? The
server lists several possibilities (archive, redhat-ftp, redhat-base,
redhat-beta, redhat-rawhide, redhat-updates, redhat-contrib), but
is redhat-base what I should choose for the base archive mirror? Or is
redhat-ftp my choice? What's the difference?

Finally, here is my failing rsync syntax for base. What am I doing wrong
here? It looks like the path after MODULE is wrong to me.

rsync -auv
mirror.dulug.duke.edu::redhat-base/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9.0/i386
/ftp/pub/9/base








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