[PLUG] how to get a copy of the red hat errata files?

Bruce Kingsland brucek at kingkon.com
Tue Apr 16 04:02:55 UTC 2002


Dan Young's Log: StarDate 0412.0749:
> I've found  ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/redhat/updates/7.2/en/os/ to be 
> reasonably fast and rarely at their anonymous user cap. Go Ducks!

This was great. took about 2-3 hours to collect 488MB. Couldn't use
wget tho, had to use "ftp -iv ... mget *". Now, how do I discover
collecting 'only new files'. I suppose a script is in order, any body
got one handy?

-bk

> -Dan Young
> 
> Kyle Accardi wrote:
> <--snip-->
> > Are you seeking to mirror the RH updates ftp site?
> > 
> > Check out ftp://ftp.orst.edu/.1/ftp/redhat.com/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/i386
> > 
> > When you can get in, they're usually fast.  They also mirror older/other 
> > distros.
> > 
> > Sometimes they lag (by days) the official ftp://updates.redhat.com site, 
> > but this is much slower.
> 
> 
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