Jason Frisvold wrote: > On 08/12/2009 09:00 AM, Andy Speagle wrote: >> So, yes... I hardcoded one of the mirrors. > > I couldn't get it to work, so I came up with what I thought was a more > elegant solution ... I have a script that runs daily (/etc/cron.daily) > to sync my spacewalk installation with the repos. Previously it used > reposync and rhnpush, but now I can just use spacewalk-repo-sync and > save my self about 20G of space.. :) > > To solve the mirror problem, and hopefully still stay somewhat true to > the idea of using a mirror list, I'm using the following : > > MYURL=`curl -s > "http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.3&arch=i386&repo=os"; | head -1` > spacewalk-repo-sync --channel centos-5 --url $MYURL --label base-5 > --type yum > > It ran last night and sync'ed all of my systems, so it seems to work well. > > One question I did have is whether the repo sync will remove packages > that are no longer in the repository ... I'll test this out myself, but > if anyone knows, I'd appreciate the info.
Nope it will not. It does a blind import (assuming the package isn't already there). -Justin > >> Andy Speagle > > Thanks, > -- Justin Sherrill, RHCA 1801 Varsity Drive. Software Engineer Raleigh, NC 27603 Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
