Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The 03.09.23 at 13:23, Juan Francisco Torres Chacón wrote:

> I think this has been asked a lot before, but I cant find the information..
>
> We just updated a SuSE 8.1 machine, and YOU downloaded a lot of RPMS to
> /var/lib....

It is partly documented on the unofficial SuSE FAQ from this list. The
idea is to setup a local mirror - which can be a CD, a dir for use with
ftp or nfs, whatever. But, instead of refetching the rpm files, you
already have them on the "you" path somewhere.

So, read the doc about how to do a mirror. copy the rpms etc, but not the
"patches" dir, one with small files with the patches description: this one
you have to download directly from the server. After copying your local
files, you might need to get a bunch of files from the server, depends.
Let me see... I still have the script around - take it, "mutandis
mutandi":

echo Actualizando lista de parches ----------------------

rsync  --archive --update --compress --delete -P     \
    ftp.gwdg.de::SuSE-8.1_update/patches/.      \
    /usr/local/update/i386/update/8.1/patches/.         \
    | tee /home/cer/rsync.81.patches.log

echo Actualizando listas de ficheros --------------------

#rsync  --archive --update --compress --size-only -vv --dry-run \
#    ftp.gwdg.de::SuSE-8.1_update/rpm/i586/.            \
#    /usr/local/update/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/.    | tee /home/cer/rsync.81.dryrun.rpm.

#rsync  --archive --update --compress --size-only -vv --dry-run \
#    ftp.gwdg.de::SuSE-8.1_update/rpm/i686/.                    \
#    /usr/local/update/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i686/.    | tee /home/cer/rsync.81.dryrun.rpm.
#
#rsync  --archive --update --compress --size-only -vv --dry-run         \
#    ftp.gwdg.de::SuSE-8.1_update/rpm/noarch/.                  \
#    /usr/local/update/i386/update/8.1/rpm/noarch/.    | tee /home/cer/rsync.81.dryrun.rp

#rsync  --archive --update --compress --size-only -vv --dry-run \
#    ftp.gwdg.de::SuSE-8.1_update/rpm/nosrc/.                   \
#    /usr/local/update/i386/update/8.1/rpm/nosrc/.    | tee /home/cer/rsync.81.dryrun.rpm

echo Actualizando rpm/i586 ------------------------------

    rsync  --archive --update --compress --size-only -vv -P  \
        --exclude-from=/home/cer/bin/rsync.81.exc               \
        ftp.gwdg.de::SuSE-8.1_update/rpm/i586/.         \
        /usr/local/update/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/.    | tee /home/cer/rsync.81.rpm.i586

echo Actualizando rpm/i686 -----------------------------

    rsync  --archive --update --compress --size-only -vv -P  \
        --exclude-from=/home/cer/bin/rsync.81.exc               \
        ftp.gwdg.de::SuSE-8.1_update/rpm/i686/.         \
        /usr/local/update/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i686/.    | tee /home/cer/rsync.81.rpm.i686

echo Actualizando rpm/noarch ---------------------------

    rsync  --archive --update --compress --size-only -vv -P  \
        --exclude-from=/home/cer/bin/rsync.81.exc               \
        ftp.gwdg.de::SuSE-8.1_update/rpm/noarch/.               \
        /usr/local/update/i386/update/8.1/rpm/noarch/.    | tee /home/cer/rsync.81.rpm.no

echo Actualizando rpm/nosrc ---------------------------

    rsync  --archive --update --compress --size-only -vv -P  \
        --exclude-from=/home/cer/bin/rsync.81.exc               \
        ftp.gwdg.de::SuSE-8.1_update/rpm/nosrc/.                \
        /usr/local/update/i386/update/8.1/rpm/nosrc/.    | tee /home/cer/rsync.81.rpm.nos



You see that I have sections commented out, because I already have them.
First I downloaded the list of files with dry-run sessions, then I wrote
the next sections. I have it divided in sections because I did not want to
download the full update tree, my bandwidth is limited (modem). I used a
"rsync.81.exc" file containing files to exclude:

# Poner las reglas particulares antes
+ kdeaddons3-sound-3.0.4-4.i586.rpm

# Paquetes que me faltan del tcl (no debe tener parches)

+ tcl-8.4-64.noarch.rpm
+ tcl-8.4-64.i586.rpm
+ itcl-3.3-41.i586.rpm
+ tk-8.4-64.i586.rpm

*i586.rpm
*i686.rpm
k_psmp-2.4.19-167.i586.patch.rpm
k_smp-*
+ susehelp_en*
- susehelp_*
+ kde3-i18n-es-3.0.4-10.noarch.rpm
- kde3-i18n-*
- yast2-trans-de-2.6.24-0.noarch.rpm


I will not bother to translate, ein? ;-)

> Is there a procedure to reuse all that information and downloaded packages
> on a different machine?

I created a CD. Bad luck has it that you may need a file that you didn't
download because the first machine doesn't need it, and the second does,
depending on what it has installed.

> How can this be done?

Read the FAQ doc on the mirror, it is the first step - saves me typing
O:-)

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson