Ed Wilts wrote:
> This will mirror the entire cooker tree and you do can do regular updates
> from there with an rpm -Fvh.
No, that won't work. rpm -Uvh *.rpm will. Freshen will ignore
new rpms that were not there before.
> The easiest is to get a semi-recent copy of the Cooker ISO image and use that
> to do a fresh install. Once you've done that, grab an rsync utility like
> what I"m including below:
> [ewilts@linux1 ewilts]$ cat /usr/local/bin/rsync-no-cooker
> #!/bin/sh
> startdate=`date`
> rsync -ltrvz --partial --progress --stats --delete \
> sunsite.uio.no::Mandrake-devel/cooker /home/
> enddate=`date`
> echo "Started at $startdate"
> echo "Finished at $enddate"
You'd be better off using my popular all.rsync.pl. It does not
download anything not English (that saves 528 MB for Cooker alone)
and downloads using rsync's elegant patch-in-place facility rather
than a complete re-download, which yours would be doing.
Free and under GPL from:
http://members.optushome.com.au/ronst/
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Regards,
Ron. [au]
