Re: Advice on configuring a (partial) local mirror

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:57:07 -0300
Andre Costa <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]
> Replying to myself: I just looked into package contents, and it all
> goes to pretty standard places, so I guess there would be no problems
> with using it here on Fedora. Still, any good/bad experiences would be
> welcome.
> 
> I'll keep you posted.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Andre

Ok, here's what I did:

apt-netcache looks great, but it is probably overkill for our specific
situation. It allows two-way updates, meaning "client" machines can
populate the central cache as well as the "master" does. We don't
want/need to do this.

So, I avoided all the NFS stuff and apt-netcache with the simple script
below:

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#!/bin/ash

# Andre Costa [[email protected]] Thu Sep 30 08:59:29 BRST 2004
# script to automate the maintenance of a "local partial apt mirror"
# (one that only provides all updates as 'updates').

echo "INFO: synchronizing with repositories\n=========="
apt-get update
echo "INFO: downloading upgrades\n=========="
apt-get -y -d dist-upgrade
echo "INFO: removing old stuff\n=========="
apt-get autoclean

echo "INFO: updating package links\n=========="
cd /var/apt/redhat/FC1/i386/RPMS.updates
find . -name \*.rpm | xargs rm -f
find /var/cache/apt/archives -name \*.rpm | xargs -iRPM ln -s RPM .
find . -name \*.rpm | xargs rename \%3a \:

echo "INFO: updating RPM list\n=========="
genbasedir --flat --bloat --bz2only /var/apt/redhat/FC1/i386 updates
=============================

With a simple apache configuration, now all our local machines can
update from this "master" locally by putting a single file on
/etc/apt/sources.list.d with this:

rpm http://master-server/apt       redhat/FC1/i386 updates

As usual, feedback/suggestions/rants are welcome. Thks for the help and
ideas,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa
([email protected])