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Hi Louis...

This is not scalable... It doesn't make sense to setup an AFS machines 
(if you do not have it) just for this purpose. I also wonder how many 
(small and medium sites) DO support AFS in EGEE. Even, most of the site 
admins do not have a login at CERN...

Cheers
Goncalo


> So the simple way in my opinion is to use AFS.
> You don't need any token or write access (except on you machine)
>
> rsync -r --delete /afs/cern.ch/project/egee/gLite/R3.2 destination_folder
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> This rsync will take in the AFS R3.2 gLite repository rsync it on the 
> destination folder and remove the files that are no more in origin.
> you just need AFS on the machine or to use the ssh connection to a 
> machine with AFS.
>
>
> Lp
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> On 6 oct. 09, at 14:48, Arnau Bria wrote:
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>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:43:21 +0200
>> Louis Poncet wrote:
>>
>> Hi Louis,
>>
>>> The file that was defining the WN rpms list to define the group
>>> glite- WN is now comps.xml.
>>> The name of the file has not been define anywhere on our
>>> documentation. We need to be able to change our settings when we
>>> have to so if it is not explicit that this file name is
>>> comp-glite-WN.xml in a documentation you can't rely on this file name.
>>> And use a proper rsync settings to do your mirror  and the problem
>>> will disappear on your side.
>> I work more or less like Gonçalo, so I face same issues as
>> him (sometimes, cause I use to upgrade once every 3/6 months).
>>
>> Could you please define/describe "proper rsync settings" for site
>> admins like me/us? Cause if do some changes in critical files like
>> comps, I don't know how to manage my local scripts.
>>
>> Is there any guide for creating local repo replicas?
>>
>>>
>>> Lp
>> TIA,
>> Arnau
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