So I've checked around the 'net and wan't able to find anything
that great for mirroring packages between a master/slave
machine, so I wrote my own small script below. Comments?
- Paul
#! /bin/bash
##
# mirror-dpkg: mirror Debian packages from a master computer to a slave
# 0.9
#
# Paul J. Lucas
##
RCP="scp -q"
RSH="ssh -q"
########## You shouldn't have to change anything below this line. #############
alert() {
echo "$ME: $1" >&2
exit 1
}
usage() {
echo "usage: $ME [slave_hostname]" >&2
exit 1
}
########## Main ###############################################################
ME=$(basename $0)
(( $# > 1 )) && usage
PID_FILE=/var/run/$ME.pid
[ -f $PID_FILE ] && alert "Already runnning."
echo $$ > $PID_FILE
DPKG_SEL_FILE=/tmp/$ME.dpkg_sel
SLAVE_PID=/tmp/$ME.slave_pid
trap 'x=$?; rm -f $PID_FILE /tmp/$ME.*; exit $x' EXIT HUP INT TERM
case $# in
1) SLAVE=$1
# See if the slave is running by trying to copy its PID file here.
$RCP $SLAVE:$PID_FILE $SLAVE_PID 2>/dev/null &&
alert "Slave is apparently already running."
# Copy master package list to slave.
dpkg --get-selections \* > $DPKG_SEL_FILE
$RCP $DPKG_SEL_FILE $SLAVE:$DPKG_SEL_FILE
# Tell the slave to update.
$RSH $SLAVE $ME
;;
0) dpkg --set-selections < $DPKG_SEL_FILE >/dev/null 2>&1
apt-get -q=2 dselect-upgrade
;;
esac
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