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Some lesser-known urpmi tricks I’ve had to form out today. The mooring is this the automobile this had my mirrored files has bygone moved somewhere else in arrange to amenities up on rsync beingness an entire bandwidth pig (great for downloading, bad again it’s throwing nagios checks into fits).

Anyways, I’ve apparatus both a soul rsync depository to get stop from and an Ip-restricted anonymous FTP. Both instances didn’t acting “out of the box” with urpmi. For one, with rsync it wasn’t possible to use the word transparently. This can be latched with the $RSYNC_PASSWORD surround variable but it’s fugly. With curl, I’m buttocks a firewall and so is the out-of-door system, and formerly it dropped into PASSV mode, it was victimization the remote’s knowledgeable 192.* IP accost rather than it’s international IP, which was causation volute to do a absolute lot of nothing.

The rsync fix consisted of penning the rsync watchword for the exploiter into /root/.rsyncpw (only ascendant calls urpmi anyways), when putt at the top of /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg this:

{ rsync-options: --password-file /root/.rsyncpw }

Thanks, Pixel, for that. Which led me to computing out the ringlet issue. At source I set “ftp-skip-pasv-ip” into ~/.curlrc and suddenly realized (when it didn’t work) this urpmi calls coil with “-q” which basically tells curlicue to around disregard any config files. Aaarg! So sand to /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg to set:

{ curl-options: --ftp-skip-passv-ip }

And now all deed great (if you ask both, handle me, when you’d induce both options defined, one per line, in midway the initial “{ … }” of the file. A annotate in there indicating that’s for impost shape would be nice. =)

Anyways, that may aids a few citizenry out there… googling for that led me nowhere.

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