L Anderson wrote:
I use rsync to maintain a local Cygwin release mirror so I can use Setup to locally install anything from Cygwin release on a number of PCs on my network.
I do too but without the script part. I just have a line in my crontab:
00 10,22 * * * rsync -rlt --exclude=mail-archives rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ /d/cygwin-mirror//dev/null
I don't really see why you need to do it in two steps, just use --exclude to get rid of stuff you don't want and mirror the base directory.
Initially I used --exclude but decided it was safer to ask for what I want rather than for everything but what I don't want. If a subdirectory that I don't want is added to the mirror, it gets downloaded until I discover it and change the --exclude to exclude it. The mirror's directory structure is more stable now than when I stared so it might not be such a problem, however, .....
You can cut that down significantly by using --exclude to ignore the source packages. Of course, that means you can't install source packages.
I know, but then we wouldn't have all that nifty source code easily at hand to drive us crazy trying to figure out what it does :-) so that someday we might be able to contribute.
You have given me a couple of things to think about, especially using cron, thanks.
Regards,
Lowell Anderson
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