Re: [WBEL-users] List of mirror sites for yum updates

On Sat April 15 2006 11:28, Alon wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm using WBEL 3.0 on few of my servers and I'm having a terrible
> time getting to servers to do yum updates.
>
> I only have the version 3.0 on intel P4 machines.
> I want to be able to mirror a site to have latest updates locally.
> Please advise me on how to run the script that will mirror the
> servers but will not take the IA64 or older version
> as I don't use any of it.
> What should I put into the exclude file?

Isn't this what you asked in February, to which the reply below was 
posted? 
(side note: esat.net is in Ireland - you might change it to one of the 
mirrors closer to you...)

On Fri February 3 2006 08:49, Aaron Couts wrote:
> This is what I have in my crontab.  I'm only hosing i386 headers and
> updates, so a full mirror will need to run at a higher directory
> level.
>
> 16 3 * * * rsync -Pvptrl --delete --exclude-from ~/wbel_exclude.txt
> rsync://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/3.0/en/os/i386/headers
>/ /var/ftp/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386/headers/
> 46 3 * * * rsync -Pvptrl --delete --exclude-from ~/wbel_exclude.txt
> rsync://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/3.0/en/updates/
> /var/ftp/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/updates/
>
> My wbel_exclude.txt file contains:
> SRPMS
> SRPMS/*
> ia32e
> ia32e/*
> x86_64
> x86_64/*
> athlon
> athlon/*
> lostSRPMS
> lostSRPMS/*
> origSRPMS
> origSRPMS/*
>
>
> -Aaron
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alon" <[email protected]>
> To: "Whitebox Enterprise Linux Users List" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:57 PM
> Subject: [WBEL-users] Mirror Stie
>
> > Hi Y'all,
> >
> > I would like to rsync the 3.0 and 4.0 releases to a server we are
> > setting up.
> > What is the command that I need to run in order to rsync?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Alon
> > [email protected]