Mirroring the repositories

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

You can mirror only the version of OMSA that you wish. The OMSA 5.5 repository is 201MB (if you use rsync -H), and is self-contained.
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Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com on behalf of Osburn, Michael
Sent: Tue 10/21/2008 10:46 AM
To: Baird, Josh; linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: RE: Mirroring the repositories
 
I am going to need the OMSA packages, it is silly to stage a box and hit
one repo over and over again when I have the rest of the infrastructure
in place. But since I am mirroring a ton of data I was hoping to reduce
what I am pulling down as best as I can. Shaving over a gig or three for
each release and arch. saves a lot of space over time. 

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From: Baird, Josh [mailto:jbaird at follett.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:44 AM
To: Osburn, Michael; linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: Mirroring the repositories



I am not very familiar with the Dell repo's.. but I don't imagine there
is very much in them?  What exactly will you be installing from the Dell
repos?  I was referring to the RHEL repos in the previous email..

 

From: Osburn, Michael [mailto:Michael.Osburn at echostar.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:43 AM
To: Baird, Josh; linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: Mirroring the repositories

 

Josh,

 

    That is the process that I am finalizing today, I am hoping to not
have to pull the entire dell repo down if I don't need it. 75% of my
machines are 2950s and the rest are 1950s. 

 

Would I need to pull everything under the sun to support them all with
the new repo change?

 

Michael

 

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From: Baird, Josh [mailto:jbaird at follett.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:40 AM
To: Osburn, Michael; linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: Mirroring the repositories

If I were you I would just setup a local repo and mirror all of the
packages for both distros (I do this with RHEL, not with Debian).  This
will save yourself and the mirror host tons of bandwidth...

 

Josh

 

From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Osburn, Michael
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:38 AM
To: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Mirroring the repositories

 

I am in the process of upgrading our network here to the latest and
greatest hardware. To do this I am going to have to hit both the Debian
and RedHat repos from a large number of hosts (400+ per OS). Since this
is a large ammount of hosts, is there a best practice for which sections
of the repos I should mirror? Or should I assume that it is in my best
intrest to grab them all?

 

Looking forward to your input.

 

Michael Osburn
CAS Engineering
EchoStar Broadcasting Corporation
530 Echostar Drive
Cheyenne,  WY  82007
(307) 633-5232 michael.osburn at echostar.com