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Re: Question about mirroring SL6
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:51:25 -0500
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On 06/13/2011 03:46 PM, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, J. Ryan Earl wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to setup a mirror for Scientific Linux 6 and newer (ie 6.0 and
>> all updates).  I'm going off of
>> https://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirroring/mirror.rsync but it
>> appears to be outdated and invalid for SL6.  There is no "60" directory.
>> Which directories should be mirrored for the major 6.x releases? I'm
>> assuming "6.0/" and "6x/" is this correct?  Did SL move away from the "60"
>> "61" style convention to "6.0" "6.1" convention @
>
> Mirroring 6.0 and 6x seems to work for me.
>
> IMHO 6.0 (etc) makes it easier for those of us with local mirrors since we
> can have a locally modified yum.repos.d/ file which points at the right
> place using $releasever in the baseurl rather than needing to modify it at
> each release.
>
> For sl5 (and earlier I assume) we did this but needed to add symlinks by
> hand for each release.
>
>    -- Jon

It is 6.0 instead of 60, for the reason that Jon stated.

I have updated the mirroring page to have a SL6 example.

Troy
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