----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hodrien" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] question about repo's
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Michael ORourke wrote:
If you delete the locally synced data after pushing into spacewalk, then
do a reposync, you will effectively be downloading all the packages
again. Which doesn't sound like you will gain anything. I guess if you
just did the reposync on the base packages, then you could safely delete
them after pushing into spacewalk, but with 'updates' or any other repos
that are not static, you would have the same issue.
Here's a thought, maybe you could zero out the packages after pushing
into spacewalk. Which would require a custom script. And you will need
to do a filelist before and after you synchronize so that you could take
the diff and only push the new files into spacewalk, then zero them out
after the push. That would save you from keeping duplicates of all the
packages and a lot of disk space. However reposync doesn't have that
functionality, so a custom script would need to be written.
There'd be nothing stopping you hardlinking identical packages from your
repo
directory with those in the satellite directory that I can think of...
That wouldn't confuse reposync.
jh
Good idea. Linking the files to the repo directory.
Also, it appears that reposync will work with both hard and symbolicaly
linked files.
So this could easily be scripted by doing...
1. run reposync.
2. run a find for newer (or non-linked) files within the reposync'd
directory.
3. rhnpush the new files into the appropriate channel.
4. replace the files from the reposync'd directory with links to files under
/var/satellite/.
5. done.
-Mike
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