Download all Packages

[lucky21]

Is there anywhere I can download all "I mean all" of the packages for fedora core 7, 8. I want to create LiveCDs and I can't use my DVD for the source because it doesn't have all of the required files to create the LiveCD. I always have to resort to using my slow connection.

Anyone? ANyone? I don't care if its 4 gigs, thats fine. I want it. Whatever I can make into an .iso and use for a source. Im good with that! Thank you!

[bob]

These guys can probably set you up: http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins

[Dan]

Or, if you have more money than bandwidth ...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distri.../OnlineVendors

[lucky21]

Originally Posted by bob

These guys can probably set you up: http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins

Thanks. It can never be something simple. Just download an .iso file and be done with it.

I have to download jigdo, run that. Then download the iso from there. lol....Weird.

Then hope this is what I wanted and not what I already have! hah!

[Seve]

Hello:
If you are really intent on downloading "everything" then install a ftp client
say gftp or post another topic for advice on a ftp client.
Then, pick a close and friendly mirror and go to it.
You will have to create a local repo which, I think you already know how to do.

Then you should be good to go.

Be advised that the space required will be well in excess of your 4 Gig estimate

Seve

[sej7278]

Originally Posted by Seve

Be advised that the space required will be well in excess of your 4 Gig estimate

yeah i've rsync'ed fedora-updates (only keeping the latest version) and fedora-release (essentially the dvd and extras) and that is currently coming in at almost 15 gigs just for i386 fedora7.

[hellork]

My solution was to edit /etc/yum.conf on my desktop system and turn off caching. Then I made a script to collect all the rpms from /var/cache/yum and put them into a custom repo, which I connect to with my laptop using fuse-sshfs.

yum install createrepo fuse-sshfs yum-utils
mkdir -p /opt/myrepo/cache

#/bin/sh
#updaterepo
DIR=/opt/myrepo
for x in `find /var/cache/yum | grep rpm`; do mv $x $DIR; done
oldrpms=$(repomanage -s -c -o $DIR)
test -z "${oldrpms}" || rm -v ${oldrpms}
createrepo -c $DIR/cache $DIR

Now I only have to update one machine and run the updaterepo script afterwards. Any other machines that need updates run yum clean all and then connect to it using a custom myrepo.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d

[myrepo]
name=Myrepo
baseurl=/mnt/myrepo
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

As for making custom DVDs, I'm using revisor, but so far no toast

[robatino]

Originally Posted by lucky21

Thanks. It can never be something simple. Just download an .iso file and be done with it.

I have to download jigdo, run that. Then download the iso from there. lol....Weird.

Then hope this is what I wanted and not what I already have! hah!

It's to distribute the bandwidth (see "man jigdo-file"). Any one server that tried to host such a thing would probably melt down.

[lmo]

I was just daydreaming about selecting the desired subdirectory under Fedora Download Server or a mirror, and making up some command with wget. I don't know if you can do something like that. Naturally, don't try to get the whole thing unless you have some kind of super-cluster or something.

[robatino]

The man page says that wget has a -r (recursive) and a -l (number of levels, default is 5) option.