[PLUG] What wget options to clone a repo?

[Galen Seitz]

On 11/6/19 10:13 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Galen Seitz wrote:
> 
>> rsync is probably a better option.
>> https://rsync.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/
> 
> Galen,
> 
> Thanks. wget is chomping away at downloading the current contents. Once
> there's a seed future checks (via a cron job) will look for only patches
> (upgraded packages) and use rsync to download and upgrade them. So this 
> is a
> one-time action.
> 
> As an aside, if I were to use the above URL I'd clone all slackware
> distributions (32- and 64-bit) from 8.0 through -current. I need only the
> 14.2/x86_64 directory tree.

I was merely showing you that OSU has rsync access for slackware.  I 
didn't intend for you to mirror the whole thing.  In fact, OSU has rsync 
access to mirrors of all the common Linux distros, as well as a bunch of 
other stuff.

galen
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