F22 - building local repo

[Robert Moskowitz]

I am downloading (with rsync) the x86_64 os and updates, but noticed how 
little there is under the os directories, and that there is this 
'everything' tree with all of the rpms for the os.

Can I rsync the everything packages and repodata directories on top of 
the os tree to make a complete setup, or do I have to have to keep the 
everything tree separate?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:05:21 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I am downloading (with rsync) the x86_64 os and updates, but noticed how 
> little there is under the os directories, and that there is this 
> 'everything' tree with all of the rpms for the os.
>
> Can I rsync the everything packages and repodata directories on top of 
> the os tree to make a complete setup, or do I have to have to keep the 
> everything tree separate?

Your question is ambigous, because there is a "os" directory
in both the "Everything" repo and in each separate product tree.
Example:

Fedora 22 GNOME Workstation (x86_64) repo:
  http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/22/Workstation/x86_64/...

Fedora 22 Everything (x86_64) repo:
  http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/22/Everything/x86_64/o...

The "Everything" repo contains all packages at the time of release.
The other trees contains just the packages as used by the
individual product installation media.

So, yes, you can mirror "Everything", but think twice. How many of
the packages in that huge collection do you really need? I would rather
mirror the product repo you really use. The updates and updates-testing
repos may grow a lot, too, and include many updates you don't need either.

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/11/2015 08:29 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:05:21 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > I am downloading (with rsync) the x86_64 os and updates, but noticed how
> > little there is under the os directories, and that there is this
> > 'everything' tree with all of the rpms for the os.
> >
> > Can I rsync the everything packages and repodata directories on top of
> > the os tree to make a complete setup, or do I have to have to keep the
> > everything tree separate?
>
> Your question is ambigous, because there is a "os" directory
> in both the "Everything" repo and in each separate product tree.
> Example:
>
> Fedora 22 GNOME Workstation (x86_64) repo:
>    http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/22/Workstation/x86_64/...
>
> Fedora 22 Everything (x86_64) repo:
>    http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/22/Everything/x86_64/o...

Good point.  I pulled down the server os, eventhough I plan on putting 
it on a workstation (notebook).  In F21, I found that the workstation 
release was too limited.
> The "Everything" repo contains all packages at the time of release.
> The other trees contains just the packages as used by the
> individual product installation media.
>
> So, yes, you can mirror "Everything", but think twice. How many of
> the packages in that huge collection do you really need?

Not too many.  And disk space on my 1Tb drive is getting scarce, but do 
I still need F17 & F19?
> I would rather
> mirror the product repo you really use. The updates and updates-testing
> repos may grow a lot, too, and include many updates you don't need either.

I don't mirror update-testing.  Update was a 13Gb download.

Well for now I will see how it goes.  Thanks for the reply.