[tools] mrepo seems to ignore lftp-mirror-options

[Brian C. Hill]

	Ahhh. Got it. Thanks!

	It would be nice to have a way to mirror only part of a site. We
only use 20-30 packages from rpmforge and would prefer not to have to
mirror all 5000. I don't think any of the command line stuff fed to either
ftp or rsync via the -mirror-options variables will accomplish this.

	I wouldn't even bother with mirroring, but we use RH for some
things to make Oracle happy (support, etc., blah, blah). We use update
to get yum and then use yum to get everything else, but up2date wants
to download several hundred header files just to install yum, which
can take an hour in some cases (yes, very weird). I won't pretend to
understand how up2date works.

	There are lots of ways to pull this off (put yum in a local repo,
etc..), but they all involve some 'special' work or an exception to how
all other updates are handled.

	If anyone has any suggestions, I like to hear them.

Brian
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 03:40:32PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Brian C. Hill wrote:
> 
> > 	I am trying to mirror only certain RPM's from rpmforge, rather
> > than all 5K rpms. I tried using lftp-mirror-options to do that, but it
> > seems to be ignored. When I "ps -fp <lftp pid> --width=400", I see the
> > long list of other options, but not the one I specificed. I also tried
> > "-X blah" just to keep it simple - no luck.
> > 
> > 	Am I missing something?
> 
> The lftp-mirror-options is a 'system-wide' option that belongs in the 
> [main] section. If you did that, it should work (I went over the code, 
> which is pretty simple) and do not see an error.
> 
> Beware though, that you have 3 directives to influence what lftp does:
> 
> 	lftp-options
> 	lftp-commands
> 	lftp-mirror-options
> 
> On the commandline this would look like:
> 
> 	lftp <lftp-options> -c '<lftp-commands>; mirror <lftp-mirror-options> <url> <path>'
> 
> But it looks like you already know that :)
> 
> I tried it myself by just adding:
> 
> 	[main]
> 	lftp-mirror-options = --just-a-test
> 
> And by doing:
> 
> 	mrepo -vvvvu -t http rhel5s-i386
> 
> And I see:
> 
> 	rhel5s-i386: Mirror packages from http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/ to /shelf/redhat/system/rhel5s-i386/rpmforge
> 	Execute: exec /usr/bin/lftp  -c '; mirror --just-a-test -v -v -v -e -I *.rpm -X "/headers/" -X "/repodata/" -X "*.src.rpm" -X "/SRPMS/" -X "*-debuginfo-*.rpm" -X "/debug/" http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/ /shelf/redhat/system/rhel5s-i386/rpmforge'
> 	mirror: unrecognized option `--just-a-test'
> 	Try `help mirror' for more information.
> 	mrepo: Mirroring failed for http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/ 
> 	with message:
> 	  Failed with return code: 256
> 
> Kind regards,
> --   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

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