[Open Office] go-oo mirroring

michael meeks michael.meeks at novell.com
Fri Sep 9 06:04:31 EDT 2005


Hi Michael,

	Great work :-) Did we write up the rsync stuff in the wiki ? - also -
if any of the mirrors are public it'd be nice to publicise them there.

	Thanks,

		Michael.

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 14:25 -0700, Michael Leibowitz wrote:
> It is now possible (and encouraged) to mirror the go-ooo.org packages
> directory.  You may do so with rsync (go-oo.org::packages).  Rsyncd is
> set up to only allow 5 simultaneous connections, due to the meager
> resources available on the machine.  The recommended mirroring procedure
> would be to jam something like: "rsync -azq --delete --partial
> go-oo.org;:packages /some/directory/where/you/want/" into your crontab.
> 
> Configure will now take the --with-mirror option, so you you can set it
> to the URL prefix of where you like, such as
> "--with-mirror=http://www.foo.bar/mirror"
> 
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