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It is properly commented, but you might want to read his Local Slackware mirror blog post. With the script you can make ISO images for CD, DVD, or both. |
Alien Bob provides a great script to mirror the Slackware current directory and create an ISO if desired. It's available here and is well worth downloading. His webiste here is full of useful stuff and deserves a bookmark if you are using Slackware.
Edit: Sorry for repeating Bruce's information - I missed his post (too busy looking at other stuff while posting). |
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Since you will not need everything, look at your downloadspeed. Maybe it makes more sense not to download all the stuff. Markus |
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I've changed the parameter to create a DVD ISO instead of CD. What else do you change in the script? |
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machines and Slackware64 -current for the 64-bit ones. The scripts run every night (here) in a cronjob with these commands (also two others commented): Code:
# Keep the Slackware patches up to date for the server Quote:
to /usr/local/sbin/mirror-slackware-current.sh. This replaces the old one, but it is not necessary to change the options, because they are now all set in the config file -> /usr/local/sbin/mirror-slackware-current.conf To answer your question "What else do you change in the script?" On my server there are two scripts which are symlinked and individually placed in my crontab. One is for Slackware -current, and the other for Slackware64 -current. Here's what I have now. Note I used egrep to just display the uncommented lines in those files: Code:
mingdao@paul:~$ egrep -v "(^#|^ *$)" /usr/local/sbin/mirror-slackware-current.conf Code:
mingdao@paul:~$ egrep -v "(^#|^ *$)" /usr/local/sbin/mirror-slackware64-current.conf comes out I will rsync it but exclude all directories except ./patches. Also, after Slackware-13.0 is released, when the new -current starts up again, I will exclude everything except ./slackware because that is all that I use during -current testing phase. Since we are (hopefully) close to a stable release of Slackware-13.0, presently I am keeping the entire tree in sync. That way when 13.0 is released, I can run alpha_geek's slidgo scripts and just update/change my -current mirror to 13.0. The command rsync is better than wget IMO in many ways, but particularly for this use because rsync checks the files on source against destination, which keeps you from having corrupt source when you finish. |
Thank you Bruce!
I've read your link and modified the .conf file. I will keep on reading your post to see what else can I modify. Thanks again for such a valuable help. |
After you create the file mirror-slackware-current.conf you can look
at it and Eric has commented it very well. And if you need more help after looking at the comments, post a thread in the Slackware forum. Someone will probably be able to help you right away, and if not, when Eric is available he checks the forum and will more than likely notice a thread with his script and reply. |
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I saw that one of your crontab scripts is to download Slackware patches. I would really appreciate if you could show me a copy of that script which I find very useful too. This thumb up is for you! Best regards, |
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Does anyone one know of documentation/HOWTO on this topic? Thanks. |
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mingdao@paul:~$ less /usr/local/sbin/mirror-slackware-current.sh ISO="NONE" I thought that was mentioned in the section above. Perhaps if you leave it blank, i.e. ISO="" you get no ISO image, also. Will have to ask Alien Bob when he gets back off vacation. Or, try it. ;) |
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to update sligdo, but here is alphageek.dyndns.org : linux : sligdo You can read and get prepared by following that guide. I tried Google -- it found sligdo, also. ;) |
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