Howto build a yum repo mirror specific to pe2950?

Jeffrey_L_Mendoza at Dell.com Jeffrey_L_Mendoza at Dell.com
Mon Nov 10 09:43:09 CST 2008


Hi Frank,

The repo is hardlinked, so rsyncing the whole repo is only a few megs
more than a single platform.

Entire OMSA_5.5 repo:  201M

pe2950 directory: 130M
platform_intependent directory: 32M

The best thing to do is rsync the whole OMSA_5.5 directory and be sure
to use -H.

Thanks,
Jeff

> Hi,
>     I'm trying to build a local mirror from 
> rsync://linux.dell.com/repo according to 
> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/OMSA for 
> several pe2950 here. That's the only server we've purchased 
> from Dell so far, and all the OS are CentOS-5.2-{i386,x64}. 
> We'd like to use the latest
> OMSA-5.5 of course. The file list from the repo is huge and 
> most of them are not relevant to our hardware and OS. What 
> I'd like to do is to only download the 
> hardware/latest/pe2950/{rh50,rh50_64} due to bandwidth and 
> storage concern. But there's also directories like
> hardware/latest/system.ven_0x1028.dev_0x0295 which is unknown 
> for me whether pe2950 related. Do I have any option to filter 
> only those files related to pe2950 in the repo?
>     Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Frank Wang



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