Multiple repositories or multiple subdirectories

[Paul Howarth]

Robert Marcano wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 15:36 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Robert Marcano wrote:
>>
>> mirror tool that is rsync
>>> Maybe creating a repository layout like
>> ...
>>> could make easy for mirrors to tell rsync to ignore some directories.
>>> createrepo already support a nested structure, What do you think about
>>> that?.
>> If space is a concern, have you considered simply using a caching proxy?
> 
> space is not a concern, network usage is.
> 
> Yes, but still it is a problem to make available for installation (not
> only updates) groups of packages when network connection is not fast
> enough (a common problem in my country, and I think in others too), It
> is easier to setup rsync at night time, and leave the little bandwidth
> available for daily operations

I maintain local mirrors of updates to the packages on the original DVD 
plus a few selected others (e.g. additional dependencies required by 
updates but not the original versions of those packages):

http://www.city-fan.org/tips/SubsetRepositoriesFedora10

This approach could easily be tweaked to use an arbitrary set of 
packages rather than the package set on the original install media.

Paul.