Thanks all!!! Ill have to get that stuff working... im waisting too much
harddrive space as is <GRIN>
thanx again
dave
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Depends on how you actually perform the mirroring. A good mirror tool
> (fmirror?) should do it.
>
> I personally use rsync. There's an option in rsync that will delete any
> files that no longer exist on the master site. I think I use something like
> the following..
>
> rsync -av --progress --delete --exclude "*.src.rpm"
> rsync://blah.com/Mandrake-devel /mirror/Mandrake-devel
>
> (That is all one big line..)
>
> To break that down..
> -av = Archive and verbose mode
> --progress = Show me what's going on
> --delete = Delete packages that no longer exist
> --exclude "*.src.rpm" = I don't want source RPMs
> rsync://blah.com/Mandrake-devel = The server and tree I'm mirroring
> /mirror/Mandrake-devel = Where I'm keeping the mirror locally
>
> Works like a charm. =)
>
> Don Head
> Linux Mentor
> Wave Technologies, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Armisis Aieoln
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 6/18/00 1:33 PM
> Subject: [Cooker] Cooker Cleaner needed
>
> Hello again all, Just writing to see if anyone can suggest a utility for
> cleaning out old versions of my RPMS/files from my
> /Mandrake-devel/cooker
> directory... The more I upgrade the more old stuff gets left behind and
> I have
> to manualy get in there and root arround for stuff that is no longer
> needed or
> outdated. I was hoping some one has already addressed this issue but If
> not I
> would love to try to make a script or something to do the job, but I
> dont know
> where to begin in writing such a tool.
>
> Dave
>
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