On 10/13/20 8:04 AM, Teh, Kenneth M. wrote: > Hello Nico, > > I'm under the impression you maintain the epel repos. If I'm not mistaken, do > you have instructions for cloning them? I'm interested in preserving SL6 and > EPEL6 beyond their EOL to use for creating container images.
You are mistaken - EPEL is from the Fedora Project, but no worries, just go to the list of EPEL Mirrors and picking a nearby mirror using the protocol of your choice (rsync, http), mirror the repo: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__admin.fedoraproject.org_mirrormanager_mirrors_EPEL&d=DwIF-g&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=fa__8iD8YoUrx80ADBdu6xRV_Xb3V-8dGY1roz-gkwo&s=Wk8qAkRPCNSY6R10xy5svCGIOVo-juEMhqiqeJGJM6k&e= If you use rsync, I suggest "browsing" and using 'rsync -n' to see what would be transferred before actually doing it. Use the http links to easily browse the file structure. E.g., if your mirror is rsync://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora-epel/ , rsync rsync://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora-epel/ (the trailing slash is important) will show you the top level directories. You probably want just EPEL "6", so take that next step... rsync rsync://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora-epel/6/ OK, so now work up to doing the transfer, but "-n" means don't actually transfer anything, it'll just show you the full recursive list of files. rsync -n -avHP rsync://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora-epel/6/ ./ If you don't need the ppc64, exclude: rsync -n -avHP --exclude=ppc64rsync://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora-epel/6/ ./ Rinse and repeat until satisfied, then remove the -n to transfer files for real. You'll need about 47 GB for EPEL 6 excluding ppc64, visible if you include "-hh --stats" in your rsync command.
