CentOS 5 :: Making Own Yum Repository Via Rsync?
Oct 29, 2009
I'm making my own yum repository - firstly so that all the machines I administer can be updatedvia the internal network, secondly so that I can test any updates on a spare machine before passing them on, and thirdly so that I can add my own repo for internal software.
I've created the necessary folders under my webserver, and used rsync to update them from my local CentOS mirror, following the instructions at [URL]
I notice it says to run "createrepo" on the base repository, created by copying the rpms from release DVD.
When I rsynced the updates repo, but I notice that the files in repodata are very small. In fact, having a look inside them, filelists.xml contains no file details. But if I run createrepo in the updates directory, filelists.xml gets lots of file details inside it.
I wondered if maybe the local mirror hadn't been updated properly, but checking against mirror.centos.org shows that has the same files.
how does the (real, live, CentOS) updates repo work when there is nothing in the filelists?
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Aug 24, 2009
I'm syncing a server over the internet with rsync, but it only works for a few hours before the backup fails with a "No route to host". I can restart the job and it'll will pick up where it left off, but is there an automated way to do this, or protect against a connection failure? I have about 170GB to copy over initially, but I can only get through about 4-5GB before the connection drops--manually restarting the sync everytime it drops will make the initial backup take days...
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Nov 15, 2010
I was wondering if there is a way to tell rsync to only apply changes (delete, overwrite,create) only if all files in the file list transferred successfully.Just to clarify, this would essentially be putting a transaction around the transfer.
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Feb 24, 2011
Just tried to rsync /repositories/server:/monitoring for SLE 11.1 which is visible through http [URL], but when I browse through [URL] the SLE_11.1 directory isn't there.
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Mar 21, 2011
As an example, I have two servers, sm-i222 and fileserv. sm-i222 is a Win2k3 system running cygwin. fileserv is a linux box running RHEL 4.7. sm-i222 maps /cygdrive/c to the c: drive and /cygdrive/d maps to the d: drive(actually a single 4TB RAID). from the sm-i222 server /cygdrive/c I call a small script from the crontab. The internal IP for fileserv is 10.0.0.7. See below.
cd /cygdrive/d/fileserv/home
rm -rf /cygdrive/d/fileserv/home/*
rsync -avz -e 'ssh -c blowfish' root@10.0.0.7:/home/* .
These three lines perform well in that they make a full transfer of the fileserv:/home/ directory on fileserv to the appropriate place on sm-i222 using rsync. I use rsync instead of scp because I have to traverse subdirectories and symbolic links in the /home/... filesystem on fileserv. What I'm looking to do is use rsync to do an incremental transfer/backup of only the files that have changed since the last full backup. I'll manage the times I do this manually or in crontab. A colleague says this is do-able, but not how. Rsync.org says this is do-able but not how. Cygwin says this is do-able... see rsync.org. I believe what I'm looking for is a single rsync line like I have above that only transfers the changed files on fileserv to sm-i222.
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May 11, 2011
I have some source of some packages( .dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz) and I want to generate a [.changes] file for it so that I can use [reprepro] for generating my desired repository.
I read the manual of dpkg-genchanges and try with it however, It direct me to help of the command.
1. Can I generate from ( .dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz) file a [.changes].
2. If question (1) is not possible, how can I use directly ( .dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz) in reprepro for generating my repository.
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May 11, 2011
I have some source of some packages( .dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz) and I want to generate a [.changes] file for it so that I can use [reprepro] for generating my desired repository. I read the manual of dpkg-genchanges and try with it. Can I generate from ( .dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz) file a [.changes]. If question (1) is not possible, how can I use directly ( .dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz) in reprepro for generating my repository.
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Mar 4, 2011
I am trying to configure DNS on my CentOS 5. When i am trying to install BIND using YUM, i am getting the following error.
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/addons/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Ti meout: <urlopen error timed out> Trying other mirror.Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: addons. Pl ease verify its path and try again. I am able to ping from Linux to windows OS. But when iam trying to do
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Apr 23, 2010
I installed centos 5.3 on my server one year back, it was getting update form yum till jan 2010. but now if i update it through yum it gives following error:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: ftp.jaist.ac.jp
* city-fan.org: download.virtensys.com
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Jul 18, 2010
I am trying to install apache on centos-5-i386 (# yum install httpd) and get the following error:
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[root@IDK3 /]# yum install httpd
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.mirrors.tds.net
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Edit: The url works if I leave out "repomd.xml" at the end; and the repomd.xml is exactly in that folder? i have downloaded the file but don't know how to use it.
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Oct 25, 2010
Yum update do not respond and I get these exceptions. Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile [URL]... [Errno 14] HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: base. Please verify its path and try again I have search the forum but the suggestion have not help me resolve this issue. I tried both the mirrorlist and baseurl links in the CentOS-Base.repo file. I using proxy and have followed the instruction [URL]. When I run "yum --disablerepo "*" --enablerepo "rpmforge" list available" I get this
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Error getting repository data for rpmforge, repository not found
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I have two servers, both running CentOS, but one running Cpanel as the control panel and the other running Webmin.
I would like to sync the web folders using rsync. However, when I sync the files from the Cpanel host the permissions look as follows:
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But that doesn't work on the Webmin server which needs the following:
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It seems the Cpanel install has the group as 'nobody' whilst webmin has it the same as the file owner. I can fix this by running:
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But as the file transfers will be frequent, I don't want the files to be inaccessible until chown is run.
So, what I really want to know is - how can I change things on the 'webmin' server so that files with ownership owner:nobody will run?
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Dec 22, 2009
Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'>
Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not found
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in <module>
main()
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Apr 16, 2010
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Anyone have an example I can use?
The rsync just craps out when they try to sync files with spaces, I tell them that but....
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