On 12/08/08 00:51, Shawn Walker wrote: > Jens Deppe wrote: >> I recently put together a script to mirror an OpenSolaris repo. >> Perhaps it might be useful to others. You can find it here. >> >> http://blogs.sun.com/jensd/ > > Actually, ips does support mirroring. That support has been in there > for a few months now. See man pkgdepotd's documentation for the --mirror > option. > > In addition, if you read here, you'll note we have documentation on how > to setup a mirror for Sun folks: > > http://infoshare.sfbay.sun.com/twiki/bin/view/Pkg/RunningAContentMirrorOfIpkgsfbay > > > > We'll also be working with other community members to make more public > mirrors available. > > Cheers,
Shawn, So does the --mirror option clone any information from it's parent? Presumably not, given that the other part of setting up a mirror is doing an rsync of the data. Other than placing the repo into a read-only mode, do you know what else the option does/provides? In my case I need to be able to create and update mirrors at global locations, outside of Sun's network. In addition, being able to use http also means easy network traversal with minimal worries of firewalling problems. Is it actually possible to use rsync to pkg.opensolaris.org externally? --Jens
