On 22 Mar 2003 10:56:15 -0800, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:09, Gary Hodder wrote:
I am downloading 9.1 from cooker. I have about 1/3 the files from the rpms directory and thats 865mb. Why so many files in rpms, then theres rpms.cooker and rpms2. How big is 9.1?
Thanks Gary.
3 x 650mb (the number of disks in the set.) or 1950mb
James
There are over 2 gig in the rpms directory, then there's the rpms2 and rpms-cooker. I don't have the rpms2 or rpms-cooker but going to try a ftp install to another box to see if it works. If this don't work i'll wait for the 9.1 final and start again.
Gary.
RPMS and RPMS.cooker have the same content. RPMS2 contains the contrib RPMS, located ../../../contrib from Mandrake/, which contains RPMS, RPMS2, and RPMS.cooker directories. Don't ask me why. If you have about a 4.5G partition set up, mounted on /cooker, for instance:
# df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
[..]
/dev/hda10 5.7G 4.2G 1.6G 74% /cooker
You could mirror cooker with an rsync command something like:
rsync -avL --delete --exclude=Mandrake/RPMS.cooker ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/ /cooker/cooker/cooker
I believe I created this directory structure on my /cooker partition, initially, before running rsync the first time; it's been a while:
/cooker (mount point) | \ /cooker /contrib | | /cooker i586
There are different ways to do it but this has worked for me. See man rsync and study the directory structure on the mirrors. Not all mirrors support rsync. The manual explains a command to query the server for rsync modules.
Rolf
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