Today is a great day to Smaug, the router!

This week it just haven’t become my esteemed router, but it also is an Slackware mirror intended to my local (home) network and for eventual recorded CDs.

Using rsync it is preety straightforward and simple. Still, to automate the update process, I have created a script that, from now on, will be executed on a daily basis checking and updating my mirror. The script is available for download and for reading on this post. Although I am a native Portuguese speaker, I wrote the code and the comments in English to ease sharing (and suggestions, comments etc). For the documentation, download the script, uncompress it and run

grep \#\# slackware-mirror

on command line.

#!/bin/bash

# slackware-mirror
# Copyright (C) 2006 Renato "trovao" Cunha

SLACKWARE_RELEASES="slackware-11.0"
SOURCE="rsync://inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu/slackware/"
OPTIONS="-avzP --delete --delete-after"
#EXCLUDE="source pasture kde kdei zipslack"
DEST="/slackware-mirror/"

case "$1" in
  "check" )
    echo "Checking..."
    for e in $EXCLUDE
    do
      excluded="$excluded --exclude=$e"
    done
    for sr in $SLACKWARE_RELEASES
    do
      $RSYNC $OPTIONS --dry-run ${excluded} "${SOURCE}${sr}" "${DEST}"
    done
    ;;
  "download" )
    echo "Downloading..."
    for e in $EXCLUDE
    do
      excluded="$excluded --exclude=$e"
    done
    for sr in $SLACKWARE_RELEASES
    do
      $RSYNC $OPTIONS ${excluded} "${SOURCE}${sr}" "${DEST}"
    done
    ;;
  * )
    echo "Usage: `basename $0` {check|download}"
    echo -e "\tcheck:    Check for updates"
    echo -e "\tdownload: Download updates"
    exit
    ;;
esac