On 19/09/10 17:26, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
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As I posted on the forum... How hard is it to run rsync and look at the
man page for rsync? rsync is the *only* command that is needed to create
a local mirror.
We want to discourage this behavior as much as possible and it is really
quite trivial to setup a mirror.
Setup a local mirror
1. rsync to local dir (look at the developer's wiki for mirrors and the
proper rysnc arguments)
2. Set up webserver to serve local dir (if on a lan)
3. Set local mirror url in mirrorlist
4. Alternatively use Server = file:///mnt/media/mirror/$repo/os/x86_64
in pacman.conf or mirrorlist
That is all that has to be done.
If one is going to be creating a local mirror, he/she should really have
this basic knowledge.
This elitist attitude is what pisses me off most about the Arch
community but I must admit that you sir just took it to the next level.
I'll answer your question anyway. It's pretty easy to create a local
mirror. But in your haste to show off your holyness you forgot that the
issue isn't about creating a mirror, it's about doing it properly
without causing issues for upstream. Your idea about throwing an rsync
command at is does things like sync the entire mirror(as-is recommended
in the NewMirrors wiki) which I'm sure isn't what you actually want if
you're going to create a local mirror and this will undoubtedly just
waste bandwidth for the mirror, after-all, if it's the packages you want
then why would you go and sync the ISOs or even the sources?
Now, I've stated my personal use-case and I' sure other have similar and
other use-cases for having a local mirror, so I guess you have no
argument against it other than it's something else that isn't useful to
you so should be available to anyone else...
Now, If you think it's a good idea to keep trolling as opposed to go and
read what the actual issues are then please continue you are free to do so.
