Re: [SLUG] Anyone know of a LISP Users group in Sydney ?
* Mark Jonathan Greenaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any LISP user groups in our fair city ? Nope, but I'm willing to get involved with one. I'd probably pop along to such a thing largely out of curiousity. I think there are many people on this list who have at least had a passing infatuation with LISP, or something like it. If you like LISP, you might like Smalltalk as well. looks like the beginning of a good-size small interest group of some sort - count me in as one of the have had a passing infatuation. Mostly by reading Paul Graham: Hackers and painters and remembering back to using it at uni. http://www.paulgraham.com/books.html is probably worth browsing through as well. yeah, pretty good from what I've read so far... of course there are so many things I want to learn and not enough time to do all of them :P Cheers, Taryn -- This .sig temporarily out-of-order. We apologise for any inconvenience - The Management -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Anyone know of a LISP Users group in Sydney ?
On 10/26/05, Mark Jonathan Greenaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello fellow SLUGers, Does anyone know of any LISP user groups in our fair city ? Nope, but I'm willing to get involved with one. I'd probably pop along to such a thing largely out of curiousity. I think there are many people on this list who have at least had a passing infatuation with LISP, or something like it. If you like LISP, you might like Smalltalk as well. And, if Smalltalk *does* interest you, there is a Sydney Smalltalk user group. We tend to meet on demand (when someone has something interesting to show), and needless to say we have a mailing list, which you can sign up for here: http://lists.openskills.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sydney-stug Lispers would also be most welcome :-) All the best, Bruce -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Anyone know of a LISP Users group in Sydney ?
If the Scheme dialect of LISP is ok with you, make sure you haven't missed the awsomeness of MIT: Full textbook online http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html Lecture Notes http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001Structure-and-Interpretation-of-Computer-ProgramsFall2002/LectureNotes/index.htm Online Tutor (yep!) http://icampustutor.csail.mit.edu/6.001-public/ Downloadable video lectures (yep!) http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ Example problem sets http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/psets/index.html MIT Scheme itself (apt-get installable as well) http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/ And that is how an academic institution does *that* :) Have fun! -- Kind regards, Hal Ashburner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Albert introducing himself
albert wrote: Hello everyone at SLUG, My name is Albert, I am from Barcelona, Spain and I just arrived to Sydney two weeks ago. I am into the Open Source movement and computer technologies in general, have been working on the GNU/Linux for aobut 5 years, and as it is my first visit in Australia, don't have many contacts yet. I would like to get to meet you all as well as contribute to your organization's events, help setting up linux systems, share linux knowledge (although I am not very well in public speeches as for my rusty english yet), or whatever other ways you may find a need for. feel free to drop me an email or reach me at my mobile 0423 738 403. Best regards to all Albert Casals Beinvenido Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SOLVED: Xorg -- No Core Pointer !
Google led me to a suggestion that the PS/2 mouse and the nvidia driver don't work with 'the new kernel' (in his case 2.6.7, in mine 2.6.5) and that you needed to add 'psmouse', 'mousedev', 'usbhid' to /etc/modules .. which I duly did. Simple .. but it took a while to get there. I think I need a break. Now to work out why ALSA modules are not being loaded and fix sound ... Cheers, Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient
I'm currently using my new laptop on my home LAN ( dual booting Kanotix and XP) to access my 4 other PCS (3 of which are headless) running Kanotix/Kubuntu and/or XP and run programs on these PCs remotely. I'm using NX/FreeNx which is included in the Kanotix distro by default, and which is also available for Windows. FreeNx includes both client and server - see http://freenx.berlios.de/ One PC is a file/print server and one is a multimedia machine incl hdtv card output to TV, but is mainly used for playing streaming Shoutcast audio through my Stereo. Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient
Forgot to copy this to the list --- Original Message --- Date: 10/25/2005 From: Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient On 25/10/2005, Phill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm told that one of the big pros of the X server/client is that the server and the client can be on separate machines ( I guess like a remote desktop). How can I use my windows machine to run applications on the linux machine. Currently I'm just using a vnc setup. VNC is one way to do it, the other is to run an X server on your desktop. Note the terminology used here: the client is actually an X application, like xcalc; the server is actually what takes its output and displays it. This isn't about remote desktop though, there is a subtle difference. Each X client can point to any X server, so you can quite happily run one application here, another there, another on a third X server. The desktop (Window Manager, kind of, in X terminology) is just another X client. Once you've got an X server running on your machine (and set up to accept clients from the remote machine), you set an environment variable called DISPLAY to point to the X server, for example: DISPLAY=192.168.1.1:0 xcalc or export DISPLAY=192.168.1.1:0 xcalc xeyes (the :0 refers to the number of the X server at that IP address) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Live Show
Okay here's a question for you late night sluggers, what would be the reaction if we wanted to do a live show from SLUG on the weekend after your November meeting? -- James Purser Chief Talking Guy - Linux Australia Update http://k-sit.com - My Blog http://la-pod.k-sit.com - Linux Australia Update Blog and Forums Skype: purserj1977 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SecuryTeam Order #117457 will be processed manually by our staff.txt
Thank you for your order (#117457). We will manually process your order and contact you soon by phone or email Below you can find the summary of the order: KEZAAM! Software distribution service 746 Comalli Street, Laguna Niguel CA 92677, USA Purchased at http://activeconsultants.co.uk/info.html - Order id: #117457 Order date: 20.10.2005 03:21 Order status: Q Total: --- Payment method: Credit Card Subtotal:EUR 164.95 Discount:EUR 0.00 Coupon saving: EUR 0.00 Shipping cost: EUR 0.00 Tax: EUR 0.00 Total: EUR 164.95 | (USD 199.59) -- Thank you for your interest in our products. Best regards, SecuryTeam! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux drive on iMac
Hi all, I need to rescue some data from my linux box after the MoBo died. I have a SCSI drive and several macs running OSX. Is there any toy I can use to connect the drive to the mac and rescue my beloved files? Kind regards kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Xming for X on Windows [Was: Xserver/Xclient]
quote who=Phil Scarratt I'm told that one of the big pros of the X server/client is that the server and the client can be on separate machines ( I guess like a remote desktop). How can I use my windows machine to run applications on the linux machine. Currently I'm just using a vnc setup. Short answer: install cygwin on your windows machine, making sure to install whatever X server is included with it. An even faster route to satisfaction: Xming. It's really easy to install and has a little startup wizard to configure it how you want, eg. running full screen or using managed windows, using PuTTY to set up a compressed ssh forward for you, etc. It's really sweet. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2006: Dunedin, New Zealand http://linux.conf.au/ Stupidity is used to run 98% of the world's corporations, which tops UNIX server usage by quite a bit. - George Lebl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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Re: [SLUG] Live Show
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 22:38 +1000, James Purser wrote: Okay here's a question for you late night sluggers, what would be the reaction if we wanted to do a live show from SLUG on the weekend after your November meeting? Okay a bit more detail on the Grand Plan. After discussing the idea on irc last night I've refined the idea a bit. Instead of holding the broadcast on the weekend after next months meeting, it was suggested that I do it during the meeting. Depending on who I can drag up to talk to and so on, the show would go for an hour to an hour and a half. I need to get some live interviews organised so if you have a project that you want to spruik or you know of any news F/OSS wise then let me know so we can organise you a slot. Music will be provided care of Shayne O'Conner's machinehasnoagenda Creative Commons website. -- James Purser Chief Talking Guy - Linux Australia Update http://k-sit.com - My Blog http://la-pod.k-sit.com - Linux Australia Update Blog and Forums Skype: purserj1977 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient
Hi all I guess I thought (not really understanding the concept.. but now I do) that it could be used as a remote desktop with the gui bacically being redirected to a remote output. I do use a vnc at the momement. It is a bit slow and I was wondering about a more efficient way to run programs on a server Phill smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Xming for X on Windows [Was: Xserver/Xclient]
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Phil Scarratt I'm told that one of the big pros of the X server/client is that the server and the client can be on separate machines ( I guess like a remote desktop). How can I use my windows machine to run applications on the linux machine. Currently I'm just using a vnc setup. Short answer: install cygwin on your windows machine, making sure to install whatever X server is included with it. An even faster route to satisfaction: Xming. It's really easy to install and has a little startup wizard to configure it how you want, eg. running full screen or using managed windows, using PuTTY to set up a compressed ssh forward for you, etc. It's really sweet. - Jeff Excellent! I'll tuck that away for future reference. I would revise my statement to the original poster - xming appears to be the way if you just want X. :) Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient
Phill wrote: Hi all I guess I thought (not really understanding the concept.. but now I do) that it could be used as a remote desktop with the gui bacically being redirected to a remote output. I do use a vnc at the momement. It is a bit slow and I was wondering about a more efficient way to run programs on a server Phill There's no reason why you couldn't use cygwin or xming(??) to do that. VNC or FreeNX (never used it so can't vouch for their claims as to being faster but its certainly worth a go) is possibly better or easier. If you wanted to run the odd application or two then xming might be better. Try them and see. Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:25:24AM +1000, Phill wrote: I guess I thought (not really understanding the concept.. but now I do) that it could be used as a remote desktop with the gui bacically being redirected to a remote output. That's certainly possible -- that's what xdmcp is about. I do use a vnc at the momement. It is a bit slow and I was wondering about a more efficient way to run programs on a server Vnc is fastER (but still not _fast_) and less hassle (only one port to worry about) on a WAN. Straight X is much faster on a LAN. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] fpdi = file damaged and cannot be repaired
Hi there I'm trying to use fpdi for my project. fpdi generating pdf perfectly fine under Linux Fedora with evince pdf viewer but when i am trying to view them on Acrobat reader it throwing me a error said file damaged and cannot be repaired. Does anyone have ever experince this problem and found the solution any ideas welcome cheers __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux drive on iMac
I think hardware is going to be the issue. If you've got a Mac system that has a SCSI controller compatible with the drive, then you could always try using one of the recent Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD's for PowerPC. That way, you don't have to destroy an installed OS to do the recovery, and you don't have to worry about OSX not understanding the partitions. Kevin Waterson wrote: Hi all, I need to rescue some data from my linux box after the MoBo died. I have a SCSI drive and several macs running OSX. Is there any toy I can use to connect the drive to the mac and rescue my beloved files? Kind regards kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Question about getting a certification on Linux
Hi all I'm a uni student and am interested in getting a job in the Linux area. Is it worth (or important) to get an certification on these topics? I know there are exams from LPI and RedHat, but for a general interesting in system administrator (and possibly in development area), which is worth to get? Are they helping much at all when finding a job? Thanks. Regards. Ryan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Purging YUM repositories
Because I have a large number of boxen to support behind a firewall, I find it preferable to maintain my own yum repository behind the firewall and do a wget from the Internet master repo to the local repo then run local updates from the local repo, hence saving bandwidth. Now this all works fine and if wget finds an update out there that it doesn't have then it downloads it, but if it already has it (I assume HTTP date changed logic is happening here) then it goes onto the next file. My problem is that my local repo is full of old updates that I would like to cull, but the naming conventions on the various files do not appear to be consistent, thus making auto cull difficult, eg this-file-1.2.9.i386.rpm is obvious to the human eye earlier than this-file-1.2.10.i386.rpm as well as having a later create date, but, sortwise, it orders differently (yes, I know that sort has the -n option but the variance is not always numeric). The added problem is that the change detail in the file name is not in a consistent position either, so trying awk or cut or anything else doesn't get the right detail. Has anyone resolved this problem on their own networks? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannet.com.au -- When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; When you want a system that works, just, you choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Purging YUM repositories
$quoted_author = Howard Lowndes ; Has anyone resolved this problem on their own networks? I solved something similar by purging .rpm files that were two months old using a 'find | xargs rm' once a week out of cron. cheers marty -- Life's Little Mysteries. Noel Hunter of Chippendale is one of many to be confused, and amused, by the pair of professionally produced No Regrets street signs near the corner of Greens Road and Albion Avenue, Paddington. Printed in the same style as No Standing signs, their proximity to the College of Fine Arts may give a clue to their origins. Whatever, having regrets while between the signs is subject to a $144 fine from the NSW Dept of Second Thoughts. [1] [1] - http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/31/1080544560873.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux drive on iMac
On 10/27/05, Mark Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think hardware is going to be the issue. If you've got a Mac system that has a SCSI controller compatible with the drive, then you could always try using one of the recent Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD's for PowerPC. That way, you don't have to destroy an installed OS to do the recovery, and you don't have to worry about OSX not understanding the partitions. Maybe SCSI-to-Firewire (e.g. http://www.meritline.com/ulscsifircon.html) or SCSI-to-USB (http://www.mozillaquest.com/Hardware/Belkin/Belkin-SCSI-USB_story01.html) may help you connect your disk to a Mac? (The links above are just samples from a quick scsi to usb and scsi to firewire google search). I don't know how Ubunutu may handle these converters but it sounds like an appealing way to teach the Mac to read your Linux disk. HTH, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Purging YUM repositories
Martin wrote: $quoted_author = Howard Lowndes ; Has anyone resolved this problem on their own networks? I solved something similar by purging .rpm files that were two months old using a 'find | xargs rm' once a week out of cron. But that would also get rid of rpms that have not needed to be updated in the past two months, hence necessitating wget re-getting them. cheers marty -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannet.com.au -- When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; When you want a system that works, just, you choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Purging YUM repositories
Amos Shapira wrote: On 10/27/05, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this-file-1.2.9.i386.rpm is obvious to the human eye earlier than this-file-1.2.10.i386.rpm as well as having a later create date, but, sortwise, it orders differently (yes, I know that sort has the -n option but the variance is not always numeric). Assuming the file dates are preserved - how about just ignoring the version altogether and remove all files with the same basename but the newest one? Therein lies the rub. You tell me what is the basename in these: zlib-1.2.2.2-4.fc4.i386.rpm zlib-1.2.2.2-5.fc4.i386.rpm xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-37.FC4.45.i386.rpm xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-37.FC4.48.1.i386.rpm xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386.rpm xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-37.i386.rpm util-linux-2.12p-9.10.i386.rpm util-linux-2.12p-9.11.i386.rpm util-linux-2.12p-9.12.i386.rpm util-linux-2.12p-9.5.i386.rpm util-linux-2.12p-9.7.i386.rpm util-linux-2.12p-9.9.i386.rpm It's still crude - what about packages which changed names, for instance, or packages you are just not interested in anymore? Another possible option(?) - move to apt and manage an apt cache - then you can just run apt-get autoclean once in a while. That's an option. Yet another option to achieve your original goal (share a downloaded file among multiple local machines) - setup an HTTP proxy which will automatically keep a copy the first time a file is accessed and cull old files like any other unused cache entries. ...but at some stage the cache has to be allowed to expire. HTH, --Amos -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannet.com.au -- When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; When you want a system that works, just, you choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Purging YUM repositories
Surely there are tools out there to do this, but if not, wouldn't a script that did the following work: 1. Obtained a list of contents of the upstream repository 2. Compare that list to the local contents 3. Wget anything not in the local contents list 4. rm anything not in the upstream repository Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Purging YUM repositories
Phil Scarratt wrote: Surely there are tools out there to do this, but if not, wouldn't a script that did the following work: 1. Obtained a list of contents of the upstream repository Good thinking 99, I think wget has a spider mode 2. Compare that list to the local contents 3. Wget anything not in the local contents list 4. rm anything not in the upstream repository Fil -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannet.com.au -- When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; When you want a system that works, just, you choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Purging YUM repositories
On 10/27/05, Howard Lowndes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Therein lies the rub. You tell me what is the basename in these:
zlib-1.2.2.2-4.fc4.i386.rpm
zlib-1.2.2.2-5.fc4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-37.FC4.45.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-37.FC4.48.1.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-37.i386.rpm
util-linux-2.12p-9.10.i386.rpm
util-linux-2.12p-9.11.i386.rpm
util-linux-2.12p-9.12.i386.rpm
util-linux-2.12p-9.5.i386.rpm
util-linux-2.12p-9.7.i386.rpm
util-linux-2.12p-9.9.i386.rpm
I don't consider myself an RPM wizard (I'm a debian person, forced to
learn RedHat admin at work) but a quick look at man rpm came up with:
rpm -q --qf=%{NAME} -p rpm-file-name
will print out the package's name.
Now how about about that? :)
Actually - maybe you can extract the build date from the rpm file as well using
--qf %{BUILDTIME}. So maybe something like (untested):
rpm -q --qf=%{NAME} %{BUILDTIME} %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH}.rpm\n \
| sort -n --key 2 | sort -u --key 1 | awk '{ print $3 }'
Will print out the names of files you should KEEP (maybe you'll have
to reverse the sort order). You might use comm(1) to reverse this to the
list of files you should delete.
Yet another option to achieve your original goal (share a downloaded file
among multiple local machines) - setup an HTTP proxy which will
automatically
keep a copy the first time a file is accessed and cull old files like any
other
unused cache entries.
...but at some stage the cache has to be allowed to expire.
Yes, right.
Actually - what's exactly is the issue with keeping around very old
packages? As far as I understand the situation he can take advantage
of a local copy for new packages (when upgrading the entire hen house)
but once a package was upgraded then how much does he expect to
really take advantage of that .rpm file lying around?
Cheers,
--Amos
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Re: [SLUG] Purging YUM repositories
On 10/27/05, Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely there are tools out there to do this, but if not, wouldn't a script that did the following work: 1. Obtained a list of contents of the upstream repository 2. Compare that list to the local contents 3. Wget anything not in the local contents list 4. rm anything not in the upstream repository It's called mirror, for instance. Or use rsync if that's provided. The question is whether he'd like to have a full local mirror of the repository or just the package he actually installs. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Purging YUM repositories
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:56 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
Has anyone resolved this problem on their own networks?
Hi Howard,
Here is the script I use to mirror updates from my ISP's server. The
mirror option on lftp is doing all the work. It also creates the repo
locally, and set SELinux labels, which you may or may not need to do.
Cheers, Ben
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#!/bin/sh
export TERM=Linux
perform_mirror()
# $1 - Description
# $2 - URL
# $3 - Destination
{
MIRROR=$2
REPODIR=$3
echo `date` Mirroring $1
cd ${REPODIR}
lftp -e 'mirror -e -x debuginfo exit' ${MIRROR}
# Report changed files
find ${REPODIR} -name *.rpm -mtime -3 -ls
createrepo ${REPODIR} /dev/null 21
chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t ${REPODIR}
# Do /usr/local/downloads while we are here.
chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /usr/local/download/
}
# mirror Fedora C3 updates
#perform_mirror FC3 Updates
http://mirror.vic.3fl.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/up
dates/3/i386 /usr/local/download/fedora/3/updates
perform_mirror Redhat 9 Legacy Updates \
http://mirror.vic.3fl.net/pub/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/updates/i386/ \
/usr/local/download/rh9/updates
perform_mirror FC4 Updates \
http://mirror.vic.3fl.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386 \
/usr/local/download/fedora/4/updates
echo `date` Mirroring completed
--- cut here ---
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Re: [SLUG] Purging YUM repositories
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:56:47AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Not that it necessarily helps, but do you know you can rsync? e.g. for fedora extras; rsync://rsync.planetmirror.com/fedora/linux/extras/ My problem is that my local repo is full of old updates that I would like to cull, but the naming conventions on the various files do not appear to be consistent, thus making auto cull difficult, eg this-file-1.2.9.i386.rpm is obvious to the human eye earlier than this-file-1.2.10.i386.rpm as well as having a later create date, but, sortwise, it orders differently (yes, I know that sort has the -n option but the variance is not always numeric). -v does version number sorting: $ ls -1 (that's a one for one column, not an ell) this-file-1.2.10.i386.rpm this-file-1.2.9.i386.rpm $ ls -v this-file-1.2.9.i386.rpm this-file-1.2.10.i386.rpm $ ls -v1 this-file-1.2.9.i386.rpm this-file-1.2.10.i386.rpm Has anyone resolved this problem on their own networks? I just haven't bothered, it's not that much extra space used. -- Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
