[tex-live] Off topic: copying tlnet

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Mon Nov 1 15:08:42 CET 2010


On Mo, 01 Nov 2010, Lars Madsen wrote:
> But what is the best way to make a copy of tlnet? just doing a wget  
> against our local mirror?

My rsync looks like:
	rsync -avz --delete \
		--exclude MacTeX-2009.mpkg.zip \
		--exclude mactex-2009*.mpkg.zip \
		rsync://SOME.RSYNC.MIRROR/texlive/tlnet/ \
		/var/www/norbert/tlnet/
and that works quite nicely.

Best wishes

Norbert
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