[indiana-discuss] how to create a fully functional mirror of pkg.opensolaris.org

[James Cornell]

Stephen Hahn wrote:
> * SHOUJIN WANG <autumn.wang at webex.com> [2009-02-23 07:52]:
>   
>> The rsync method introduced in the formal method "/usr/bin/rsync -a
>> pkg.opensolaris.org::osol_dev_files /export/pkg/file " does not work.
>> In my side, there is no respond from the pkg.opensolaris.org server.
>>     
>
>   Use "rsync pkg.opensolaris.org::" to test basic responsiveness.  A
>   listing of the available "modules" should be displayed, like the
>   following:
>
>   $ rsync pkg.opensolaris.org::
>   osol_dev_files 	"OpenSolaris Development Release Package Contents"
>   osol_release_isos	"OpenSolaris Release ISO Images"
>
>   It's possible that there was an outage, or that too many rsync
>   sessions were open simultaneously.  Without an explicit error message,
>   I can't diagnose further.
>
>   Thanks
>   Stephen
>
>   
I got some kind of python traceback when trying to update to b107... I
think the servers overloaded or something.

James