Local Stable Mirror Slackware

Hello guys.
I have 3 computers at home with a very bad internet. Update the 3 computers is a torture.
I was thinking of using one of these computers to make a local repository server, so I would use little bandwidth, and it would be less torturous.


I found this link: https://mirrors.slackware.com/guidelines/
to sync a specific repository 'sync://mirrors.kernel.org/slackware/slackware64-14.2/'.
It turned out that I mirrored everything including the sources.
Am I on the right track or is there any more interesting way?

I use this script Eric wrote to sync a local current and stable repository:
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/tool...are-current.sh
It's pretty easy to setup.

yep I've used that too, I have not used that script in a while but, you can make it do both just change the name of the file for stable or whatever just a different name, and mod it inside and you're cookin with gas. even have it make an updated ios. you're only going to need about ~5GB per OS current, stable, if I remember correctly.

then go into your mirror files and make the needed adjustments to point to where that is.

+1 on alienBOBs's script; a short rsync script also works in a pinch, something along the lines of

#!/bin/sh
set -x
rsync -prltvHSB8192 --timeout 3600 --stats --delete --delete-before --delete-excluded \
      --exclude unsupported \
      --exclude 'slackware-*' \
      --exclude slackware \
      --exclude 'slackware64-13.*' \
      --exclude slackware64-14.0 \
      --exclude slackware64-14.1 \
      --exclude slackware64-current \
      ftp.slackware.com::slackware/ /home/ftp/pub/Linux/slackware/

You can add an extra --exclude slackware64-14.2/source if you don't need the sources and slackbuilds, and replace the origin mirror with something closer to your location.

I use Alien Bob's excellent mirror-slackware-current.sh script to mirror these repositories.

# Check for Slackware-current updates
# Slackware64 daily at 1600:
00 16 * * * /bin/sh /home/slackware/mirror-slackware-current.sh -q 
# Slackware-14.2 daily at 2000:
00 20 * * * /bin/sh /home/slackware/mirror-slackware-current.sh -q -r 14.2
# Slackware-current daily at 2200:
00 22 * * * /bin/sh /home/slackware/mirror-slackware-current.sh -q -a x86

This is my mirror-slackware-current.sh

RSYNC="/usr/bin/rsync"
MKISOFS="/usr/bin/mkisofs"
MD5SUM="/usr/bin/md5sum"
ISOHYBRID="/usr/bin/isohybrid"
BUILDER="redacted"
SLACKROOTDIR="/home/slackware"
ARCH="x86_64"
RELEASE="current"
RSYNCURLROOT="slackware.mirrors.tds.net::slackware/"
RSYNCURL=""
EXTOPTS=""
DEBUG=1
VERBOSE="-v --progress"
ISO="DVD"
ISOONLY="no"
FORCE="no"
ONLYDIFF=0
PREREMOVE=0
HYBRID=0
EXCLUDES="--exclude pasture"
EXCLUDEFILE=""
DVD_EXCLUDES="-x ./testing -x ./source -x ./extra/source -x ./slackware*/kdei -x ./pasture"
BWLIMIT=0
CHECKVER="no"
BOOTLOADSIZE=32

Here's mine. It's for current rather than 14.2, but it should just be a matter of changing all the 'current' references to '14.2' to swap it over.

I exclude kde, kdei, k (the kernel source), and any "source/" directories. I also backup old packages to $BKPDIR just in case I need to revert, though that's more likely when following current rather than a stable release.

  MIRROR="rsync://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-current"
  DESTDIR="/srv/slackware/"
  BKPDIR="/srv/slackware/slackware64-current.bkp"

  rsync --no-motd -avz \
        --delete --delete-excluded \
        --backup --backup-dir="$BKPDIR" \
        --partial --timeout=60 \
        --exclude='/slackware64-current/slackware64/k/' \
        --exclude='/slackware64-current/slackware64/kde/' \
        --exclude='/slackware64-current/slackware64/kdei/' \
        --exclude='source/' \
        "$MIRROR" "$DESTDIR"

rsync is a nuanced tool. It's worth reading the man-page and understanding it properly, otherwise you can have the occasional nasty surprise!

With this configuration my local mirror runs to 1.7G (as reported by du -sh). I periodically clear out $BKPDIR to reclaim space as it tends to grow quite quickly with current.

I think more convenient is to use config file for @AlienBob script, than edit the script

$ less ./mirror-slackware-current # Read configuration file if it exists; # - usually called 'mirror-slackware-current.conf' CONFFILE=${CONFFILE:-"$(dirname $0)/$(basename $0 .sh).conf"} [ -f ${CONFFILE} ] && . ${CONFFILE}

Here is my config file

 
$ cat ./mirror-slackware-current.sh.conf
BUILDER="Piotr Dacko <dackopiotr7@gmail.com>"
ARCH="x86_64"
RSYNCURLROOT="rsync.slackware.pl::slackware/"
VERBOSE="-v"
ISO="NONE"
EXCLUDES="--exclude pasture --exclude source"

I would suggest the first step (if possible) to go to place with fast internet, download DVD iso of Slackware-current and create local mirror from this iso. Once you have it everyday updates wouldn't be so time consuming, except massive updates.

Maintain a local mirror to reduce bandwidth issues. For at least a decade or so I have been using my own modified version of Eric's rsync scripts.

One caveat is a local mirror has no package history. If you want to revert a package the local mirror will not contain older packatges. Been there done that. I retain copies of older packages through my backup plan.

Eric's script can be modified not to delete existing packages. Basically don't use the rsync --delete parameter.