Once upon a time, Chuck R. Anderson <cra(a)WPI.EDU> said:
Even better: create jigdo templates on the master server so that
people can choose to download the files and create their own CD and
DVD ISO images. Imaging the savings that mirrors can have by rsyncing
release trees like they do now, and regenerating the ISO images
locally.
I don't know about other mirrors, but I minimize my downloads by
downloading the CD images, running my mkdvd script on them to build a
DVD image, and rsyncing that to get the "real" DVD image. I then
extract the DVD image to the os directory, run yum-arch and createrepo,
and rsync that to fix up timestamps.
I also only download the SRPMS images for one architecture; I copy them
to the other arches and rsync them to get them right (it seems to save a
significant amount of download time).
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.