Re: options with reposync

Manikanta <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create a local centos repository behind a network.
> I cannot use rsync to sync my mirror with remote mirror as i do not
> have access to any other protocol or port except http.
>
> i tried using reposync, it is doing good in downloading the files but
> my problem is reposync downloads the files into a folder it creates
> with repoid only.
>
> Centos-Base.repo
> 	[base]
> 	name=CentOS-Base
> 	baseurl=http://mirrors.arsc.edu/centos/5/os/i386
>
> In folder os/i386 i gave the command `reposync -n --repoid=base`. This
> creates a folder os/i386/base/CentOS/* where as diresered is
> os/i386/CentOS/*. I even tried with --download-dir but to no avail.
>
> due to this i am not able to maintain arch level repos and even if i
> change my repo structure, the lableling becomes difficult when i have
> multiple repos for different arch's and OS's.

 In the upstream yum-utils a patch was added from Danny Smith to give
the option of passing --norepopath

-- 
James Antill -- [email protected]