CentOS - Jul 2011 - Script to sync with repo

under 5.6 I have a script that runs every night to rsync the repodata 
for local installations.
I added the 6.0 to do the same.

Something seems wrong now for 6.0. I do the same thing and I get errors 
from my local repo at install time.
Seems like the cyrus-sasl package is never happy and aborts the 
installation.

Is something wrong with the script below? It seems like it successfully 
copies the files.
I ran it manually and did not see any errors.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Jerry

# The kickstart files point to the "repo"
#
# This file will creat the directories and copy the files
#
for VERSION in "5.6" "6.0"
do
        mkdir -p /var/www/html/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/RPMS
        mkdir -p /var/www/html/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/repodata

        rsync -av 
rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/mirrors/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/RPMS/* 
/var/www/html/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/RPMS
        rsync -av 
rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/mirrors/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/repodata/* 
/var/www/html/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/repodata
done
~

>for VERSION in "5.6" "6.0"
Check your httpd error log for a 404:)
Just a WAG, I presume you modified your 5x installs to not look in the default
"5" location, where point releases get symlinked too once they are
current.

Your 6.0 install looks for a "6" directory.

Also try an invocation of rsync with the checksum flag; that'll 
catch any files that might be corrupted.  It does increase server
load and rsync run time, though, so you should probably disable it
again afterwards.

Devin

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Jerry Geis wrote:
> under 5.6 I have a script that runs every night to rsync the repodata
> for local installations.
> I added the 6.0 to do the same.
>
> Something seems wrong now for 6.0. I do the same thing and I get errors
> from my local repo at install time.
> Seems like the cyrus-sasl package is never happy and aborts the
> installation.
>
> Is something wrong with the script below? It seems like it successfully
> copies the files.
> I ran it manually and did not see any errors.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry
>
> # The kickstart files point to the "repo"
> #
> # This file will creat the directories and copy the files
> #
> for VERSION in "5.6" "6.0"
> do
>        mkdir -p /var/www/html/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/RPMS
>        mkdir -p /var/www/html/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/repodata
>
>        rsync -av
> rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/mirrors/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/RPMS/*
> /var/www/html/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/RPMS
>        rsync -av
>
rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/mirrors/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/repodata/*
> /var/www/html/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/repodata
> done
Here's my script. Obviously, it picks up the os/ tree as well as the 
updates/ tree. So far, no problems with 5.x or 6.x:

#!/bin/sh
for VERS in "5.6" "6.0"; do
   SRC="ftp.osuosl.org::centos/${VERS}/"
   DEST="/srv/mirrors/centos/${VERS}/"
   echo "-----------------------------------------------------------"
   echo "Sync-ing CentOS $VERS with $SRC"
   echo
   /usr/bin/rsync -avSH \
     --exclude "isos" --exclude "centosplus" --exclude
"extras" \
     $SRC $DEST
   echo "-----------------------------------------------------------"
done

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