Dear Arnau,
If you use rsync you don't need to rerun createrepo.
I really recommend this way it is light.
Andrew give us the trick to use directly the glite software repository
machine i was not aware that we can also do that with ftp.
Lp
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On 6 oct. 09, at 15:42, Arnau Bria wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:33:41 +0200
> Louis Poncet wrote:
>
>> Hi Goncalo,
>> setting up a machine for mirroring is in my opinion something that a
>> site can do (even the smaller one). An AFS installation is 1 modules
>> for the kernel and 3 packages.
>> After that you don't need any special configuration, you don't need
>> an authentication.
>> I don't know who do you set up your mirroring system but this
>> solution is really light and totally reliable you have the files
>> themselves and not a web server view of them.
>
> We do use mrepo/createrepo. I think we could change our mirroring
> protocol to rsync and see how it works.
> May we use rsync without AFS?.
>
> After that, and in our local machines, a createrepo should be enough
> (and inital creategroup too). All in theory :-)
>
> Could you please explain me why repo policy has changed between glite
> 3.1 and 3.2? I'm not repo expert and I'm really curious about that.
>
>>
>> Lp
> Arnau
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