rsync of x-86 Debian?

[Tom Buskey]

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ken at flyingtoasters.net wrote:
| Hi, all.  I find myself doing more and more frequent Debian installs at
| work, and it looks as if we're angling to convert over our ASIC team
| (perhaps a total of ten machines) from HP/UX to Debian.  I do most of my
| installs over the 'Net, 'cause it's so darn easy -- but I have to say that
| a) it could sure be a bit faster if it were local, and
| b) I feel guilty  for repeatedly getting the same files from remote
servers.
|
| I'd love to do an rsync to a local repository, but I just want x-86 stuff
| (all three: stable, testing, and unstable).  Unfortunately, to date, I've
| only seen how to rsync the whole shebang.  That's a bit overkill.

Here's my script for syncing RedHat stuff.  Adapt :-)
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#!/bin/sh


cd /download/linux

# updates
RELEASES='6.1 6.2 7.0 7.1 8.0 9'
UP_DIR='i386 i586 i686 noarch'

for R in $RELEASES
do
  for D in $UP_DIR
  do
    echo $R $D
    rsync -avz rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/mirrors/redhat/redhat/linux/updates/${R}/en/os/${D} /download/linux/mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/updates/${R}/en/os 
  done
done | egrep -v '^MOTD'

# distributions
RELEASES='6.1 6.2 7.0 7.1 9'

# Essentials:
for R in $RELEASES
do
  rsync -avz rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/openssl-[0-9]* /download/linux/mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS
  rsync -avz rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/openssl[0-9]* /download/linux/mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS
  rsync -avz rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/openssh-[0-9cs]* /download/linux/mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS
  rsync -avz rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/sudo* /download/linux/mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS
  rsync -avz rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/zlib-[1-9]* /download/linux/mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS
  rsync -avz rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/glibc-[0-9]* /download/linux/mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS
  rsync -avz rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/bzip2-[0-9]* /download/linux/mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS

done | egrep -v '^MOTD'


exit

# everything
for R in $RELEASES
do
  rsync -avz rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/${R}/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS /download/linux/mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/${R}/en/os/i386/RedHat
done



# what this pkg requires
# rpm -qpR <pkg>
exit

 wget -r --passive-ftp ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/$R/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/<file>