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How easy or difficult would it be to have a progress bar (like in swaret or even, i think wget), so we would know it is actually doing something, or stalled?
Reason why I ask is my internet cut out in a storm and the script was still running on a different terminal. I restored the connection for the os, but the script stayed at the same place for the next two days (My bad. I forgot it was running on a different terminal)
How easy or difficult would it be to have a progress bar (like in swaret or even, i think wget), so we would know it is actually doing something, or stalled?
on Server2 and/or Server3 ? Lots of disk space wasted if you ask me, one copy would be enough and you have NFS?
Not sure if I agree. I'd like to keep a complete copy of the official mirror's slackware and slackware-current directories on my main server. This to be able to use your script to burn a current-iso at any time, and at the same time have the stable also handy.
Then, for the end-user laptops and desktops, I'd like to have only -current stored locally in the /root directory, so that it's relatively easy to do an upgradepkg whenever something interesting shows up in Pat's -current. One gigabyte give or take means nothing on relatively modern systems, at least not to me.
Thus it'd be great to have a script that on the server syncs _everything_, but on the various PCs skip KDEI, kernels, aaa* and others which I wouldn't want to use with upgradepkg --installnew */*.tgz anyway.
FYI I hacked the script a litle so it now understands the "-r" option. Using that commandline option you are now also able to mirror and create ISOS for another release than just -current:
Try something like
Code:
./mirror-slackware-current.sh -f -v -o DVD -r 10.2
to mirror Slackware 10.2 and create a DVD ISO image for it, while getting a lot of verbose output in the process.
Eric, will this create a 10.2 release DVD ISO or a 10.2 with all of the updates DVD ISO? Just curious.
MagicMan
The DVD ISO you create with the script will contain everything in the slackware-10.2 tree. That includes the /patches directory i.e. all updates to Slackware 10.2 will be available on the DVD for post-installation.
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