Trevor Rhodes wrote:
Hello Guru Types and others,Install rsync6.2.pl and rsync-exclude from my web site (after reading the readme and setting up the proper receiving structures) and run ./rsync6.2.pl to mirror everything Mandrake that you want.
Having numerous Mandrake 9 installations here it can be a rather large amount to download to do the updates for all machines. Would anyone know how I could mirror the updates to my system and do the updates from there? At least that way I only have to download them once instead of once for each install/reinstall.
Then change your software sources in K-menu > configuration > Mandrake Control Center > Software Manager > Software sources to your local mirror paths.
If all the other systems are located on the same LAN, your local Mandrake structures can either be mirrored to each machine (good backup strategy) or for the other machines the software sources arranged to operate from your master Mandrake mirror structure.
Use this to set up and activate the following sources, as needed:
9.0 tree
9.0 contrib
9.0 updates
9.0 unsupported
MandrakeClub
Cooker
Cooker-contrib
a whole range of ISOs
Then run Software Manager > Software Install on each machine.
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