Re: OT: help with "local" rsync mirror

[Jesse Goerz <jgoerz@linuxfreemail.com>]

Oops, I posted to early.  I figured it out.  I just changed these lines in my 
script:

 # declare variables
 tdyc_mirror_root="/mirror/kde2/"
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

to:

 # declare variables
 tdyc_mirror_root="/mirror/kde2/dists/potato/"

after creating/moving the directories it worked like a champ.

Sorry about that.
Jesse (again)

On Sunday 07 January 2001 09:14, Jesse Goerz wrote:
> I am trying to set up a rsync mirror on my local server so I can update
> several machines on my network.  I have successfully setup the mirror as
> well as exported the mirror with nfs.  I can see the nfs mount on my local
> machines just fine.  My problem is that apt is reporting this error (from
> the local workstations):
>
> ....
> Failed to fetch file:/mnt/kde2/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages
>    File not found
> Failed to fetch file:/mnt/kde2/dists/potato/optional/binary-i386/Packages
>    File not found
> Failed to fetch file:/mnt/kde2/dists/potato/crypto/binary-i386/Packages
>    File not found
> ....
>
> My apt sources.list line on the workstations looks like this:
> deb file:/mnt/kde2 potato main optional crypto
>
> The nfs mount on the local machine looks like this:
>
> user@workstation:~$ ls /mnt/kde2
> beta  crypto  main  optional
>
> The mirror on the server looks like this:
>
> user@server:~$ ls /mirror/kde2
> beta  crypto  main  optional
>
>
> For some reason I'm not getting the dists directory.  I suspect that I have
> incorrectly setup the rsync mirror.  Here is what I'm using to rsync the
> mirror (slightly modified script from Joaquim Ortega-Cerda and Achim
> Bohnet, thanks for posting that!):
>
> Called from a cron job:
> #!/bin/bash
> #/usr/sbin/mirror_kde2
>
> # declare variables
> tdyc_mirror_root="/mirror/kde2/"
> connection_up=`ifconfig | grep ppp0`
>
> # function to do rsync stuff
> do_rsync_function ()
> {
>   cd $tdyc_mirror_root
>   exec rsync -az --delete --delete-excluded \
>    --exclude source/ \
>    --exclude incoming/ \
>    --exclude changes/ \
>    --exclude qt1apps/ \
>    --exclude binary-alpha/ \
>    --exclude binary-m68k/ \
>    --exclude binary-sparc/ \
>    --exclude binary-powerpc/ \
>    --exclude beta/ \
>    kde.tdyc.com::kde/dists/potato/ .
> }
>
> # need a test to see if online
> # then start connection as necessary
>
> if [ "$connection_up" == "" ]; then
>      pon bellsouth
>      sleep 1m
>      do_rsync_function
> else
>      do_rsync_function
> fi
>
>
> TIA,
> Jesse