Zenwalk Repositoy DVDs

tomiro · **Joined:** Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:35 pm **Posts:** 56

I would like to build a repository DVD set for Zenwalk like we have for Wolvix, Fedora, Ubuntu, And PCLinuxOS.

To do it right I'd like to have both the Zenwalk Package Repositories, and the External Software Repositories. The best way is to mirror the existing repositories then spend some time figuring out the best (easiest) way to utilize and access the data from the DVDs.

I'd love to be able to use rsync, but I don't know if any of these (or which may also) have rsync severs?

gapan · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:08 pm

The repos won't fit in a single DVD!

tomiro · **Joined:** Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:35 pm **Posts:** 56

Yea, I sort of figured that. The only single DVD repo was for Wolvix as a liveDVD/Repo disc. The other Repository DVD sets range from 3 DVDs up to 6. I can make the repo set, it would just be easier using rsync as opposed to wget.

Vincent? Michael?

gapan · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:59 pm

Well, in that case, something like this will work I guess:

Code:

rsync -avr --delete --size-only --progress download.zenwalk.org::zenwalk/i486/current /path/to/local/dir/

tomiro · **Joined:** Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:35 pm **Posts:** 56

Ok, at about 1/3 done...should have it all in tomorrow sometime.

Thanks for mentioning --size-only I had forgotten that it would also use the time stamp without it, which can cause a lot of unnecessary data to be transfered (if/when I were to use a different mirror at a later time...which is not unusual for me).

axxium · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:18 pm

Sounds like a job for 'torrent-man'!

That's going to be a whopper of a download.

Michael

tomiro · **Joined:** Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:35 pm **Posts:** 56

It's not of an unusual size for us. The initial 4 days it took to get the Ubuntu 64 bit repos in sync after the last release was a real killer. Fortunately the more repos I do the better I get at them, so with a little advanced planning they aren't too bad.

It's bout 2/3 down now. If it hadn't timed out during the night they would already be in.

I should be able to get them built either tonight or early tomorrow. Then we can send out an On-Disk.com update notice to customers who request them and see if we can get a little more attention for Zenwalk, which has been doing quite well with this release thus far.

On a side note, Zenwalk 5 is now on my Laptop, and I have to say is working very nicely now at about a week into using it day-in-day-out.

tomiro · **Joined:** Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:35 pm **Posts:** 56

It turns out that netpkg doesn't work with local repos on the hard drive. After spending a couple hours trying to figure a way around the problem I've concluded the best thing to do is to require Gslapt and make the instructions for using the repository DVDs for Gslapt.

If anyone might know a way to have Netpkg work within the file system please post back.

gapan · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:29 pm

There was a thread discussing exactly that some months ago and I remember a solution was found, but don't quite remember what was it. I'll try to find that thread (not easy with a broken search).

gapan · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:32 pm

Ah! Here it is: http://support.zenwalk.org/index.php?topic=11945.0

tomiro · **Joined:** Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:35 pm **Posts:** 56

That's exactly what I needed.

Thank you!

tomiro · **Joined:** Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:35 pm **Posts:** 56

OK, The set is finished and ready for public consumption:
http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/420

The usage details are under the "Specifications" tab.

Thanks everyone!

If anyone has any ideas how to make usage any easier please post back and we can look into it for then next release.

cfuttrup · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:29 pm

Hi tomiro.

Thank you! It looks great.

Best regards,
Claus

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