> On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 08:53:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I'm not totally convinced every sysadmin needs something like this, in >> our network we have an internal ftp mirror of main+contrib+updates for >> any realease we have on any machines (well, we had to write 8.2 to DVD >> since we only have 8.2 left on an MNF box and we were running out of >> space ...). Our machines run urpmi.update;urpmi --auto-select from >> cron (from the internal update mirror for boxes running stable >> releases, or from cooker/contrib for cooker boxes). >> > > Although I'm less than qualified as a sysadmin I've recently been made > BOFH of a small startup company. Obviously I made everyone use mandrake. > I intend to setup such an internal mandrake mirror and updates "medium", > but so far I haven't found a good description of how to set one up. Do > you know of a good description for this? It would be quite valuable for > small company administrators like me. >
I guess for this kind of use, this should be documented in a some place like the community wiki as opposed to the cooker wiki. What we do here at CAE (we have access to a local Mandrake mirror at ftp.sun.ac.za/mandrake), is we have a Mandrake box (incidentally, our print server running 8.1 + CUPS + samba of course) on which we mirror each release when it arrives on the mirror, and keep the mirror until we have no machines running the release. We also have cooker/contrib mirror, and an updates mirror on the same box, both of which get updated daily. We just have a script which runs lftp's mirror command which we linked into /etc/cron.daily (it's quite easy to use lftp ...), but I can put a sample script up somewhere if necessary. On production boxes, we have a simple script which just urpmi.updates and urpmi --auto-selects from the update source. On the cooker boxes, we have a similar script, you can see mine here: http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/cooker/update If we had rsync access to our mirror, we would probably use David's script at least for cooker/contrib. BTW, anyone think it might be an idea to add a urpmi.update-mirror command? With a gui? That can set it to run via cron? Really, MS has SUS (Software Update Services) for corporate customers, surely a quick gui could be done which could setup a urpmi medium (which has an option not to have the medium used for the local machine, but just for mirroring), and a quick perl script to run the sync? Regards, Buchan
