Fredag 23 juli 2004 18:16 kvad ka1ifq:

On Friday 23 July 2004 11:41, Richard Curtis wrote:

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Hi all, I am trying to figure out how to build a localised YOU repository for the Suse 9.1 patches.... I am constantly having to re-pull patches, so a local copy would benefit both myself, and I guess SuSE in general due to lower bandwidth use.

Can anyone point me in the direction of help ? I have looked at /etc/youservers and have seen in Yast where I can set it to use an NFS directory, but I am stuck now...

Where do I get the updates from ??? - ie, can I rsync a specific folder nightly to maintain the local copy ???

Where do the updates need storing ? (I guess this is irrelevant as if I have the local copy, I can export it via NFS and then specify that patch in Yast.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please ??

Richard

I thought of the same thing here for a couple machines. I think that if you left the updates on a master machine and did an nfs share on the dir you could point the other machines there. The dir is something like /var/tmp/ you-machine_name. HTH. Mike -- From my SuSe Linux Desktop Linux, Because rebooting is for new hardware!

Good day, I think the path is /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt This is the easier way if Richard's machines are all the same architecture, CPU and all use the same software as the master machine, or a subset thereof. If not, Togans pointer is better. Best regards :o) Johnny :o)

*********** Hi, This little script will download the complete 9.1 update site. You must first create this directories../mnt/i386/update/9.1/ and rsync will create the rest. Now the dots after 9.1/. are required. To avoid downloading all the source dirs you may create an --exclude list. I strongly suggest that you make an exclude list. There is a lot of stuff there. I used this when I was using 9.0 with an --exclude list with success. The script stays the same only the version change. I made a quick test before posting and it worked . The first time will take .. many .. hours but next time only changed files will be downloaded. I assume that you know how to update from a local directory. Note that there is a reason the way the local dirs is created..yast will not accept it otherwise. This script is modified to be without the exclude list.

rsync -auvv --stats -- delete ftp.gwdg.de::pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/9.1/. /mnt/i386/update/9.1/.

Goodluck. Should you require more info .. feel free to ask.

I have failed on this one because my firewall appears not to like the port 873 forward. Is there anyway to make it work with a socks proxy? -- Tim Nicholson http://www.bbc.co.uk/ - World Wide Wonderland This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:57:59 +0100 Tim Nicholson wrote:

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*********** Hi, This little script will download the complete 9.1 update site. You must first create this directories../mnt/i386/update/9.1/ and rsync will create the rest. Now the dots after 9.1/. are required. To avoid downloading all the source dirs you may create an --exclude list. I strongly suggest that you make an exclude list. There is a lot of stuff there. I used this when I was using 9.0 with an --exclude list with success. The script stays the same only the version change. I made a quick test before posting and it worked . The first time will take .. many .. hours but next time only changed files will be downloaded. I assume that you know how to update from a local directory. Note that there is a reason the way the local dirs is created..yast will not accept it otherwise. This script is modified to be without the exclude list.

rsync -auvv --stats -- delete ftp.gwdg.de::pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/9.1/. /mnt/i386/update/9.1/.

Goodluck. Should you require more info .. feel free to ask.

I have failed on this one because my firewall appears not to like the port 873 forward.

Is there anyway to make it work with a socks proxy?

-- Tim Nicholson

*********************************** Hi Tim , Not a lot of replies coming by .. I suggest you join the rsync maillist ( I am a member of the list) for a while and I am sure you will get the correct info. The maintainer of rsync is also active on that list. Here is some leads to that list..I am not on line now and can only supply the info from incoming post downloaded.. To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning

Tim Nicholson said:

ftp.gwdg.de only seems to have 8.2 and 8.1 repositories listed, any other rsync servers people know of with 9.0 on them?

ftp.gwdg.de does have upate with 9.0 and 9.l it's just that they are net setup explicitely with rsync, there is a more generic "share" on rsync, I think it may be called SuSE, this is my rsync fetch command: rsync -tvrl --stats --exclude=*.src.rpm --delete ftp.gwdg.de::SuSE/suse_update/9.1/ /home/SuSE/i386/update/9.1/ David -- David Bottrill david@bottrill.org www.bottrill.org Registered Linux user number 330730

Tim Nicholson wrote:

ftp.gwdg.de only seems to have 8.2 and 8.1 repositories listed, any other rsync servers people know of with 9.0 on them?

Hmmm. Actually it does, but it doesn't list it when you do a simple rsync with no source path, but it does list the others.... -- Tim Nicholson http://www.bbc.co.uk/ - World Wide Wonderland This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.