put the script somewhere ([...]/bin/sync-upstream), and it will create the heirarchy it needs relative to itself.
get started:
) change the variables in the user section as needed
) run an HTTP server
) add `sync-upstream` to cron
i recommend not running as root -- use an account called `agent` or similar on the machine. mirror will be approx 30GB.
example layout:
.
|-- bin
| `-- sync-upstream
|-- README
|-- run
| `-- master-uwsgi.pid
|-- share
| `-- sync
| `-- upstream
| `-- exclude
`-- var
|-- lib
| `-- sync
| `-- upstream
| |-- community
| | `-- os
| | |-- any [173 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| | |-- i686 [2869 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| | `-- x86_64 [2841 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| |-- community-testing
| | `-- os
| | |-- i686 [120 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| | `-- x86_64 [119 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| |-- core
| | `-- os
| | |-- i686 [297 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| | `-- x86_64 [297 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| |-- extra
| | `-- os
| | |-- any [51 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| | |-- i686 [4202 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| | `-- x86_64 [4199 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| |-- lastsync
| |-- multilib
| | `-- os
| | |-- i686
| | `-- x86_64 [198 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| |-- multilib-testing
| | `-- os
| | |-- i686
| | `-- x86_64
| | |-- lib32-libdrm-2.4.27-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -> ../../../pool/community/lib32-libdrm-2.4.27-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
| | |-- multilib-testing.db -> multilib-testing.db.tar.gz
| | |-- multilib-testing.db.tar.gz
| | |-- multilib-testing.db.tar.gz.old
| | |-- multilib-testing.files -> multilib-testing.files.tar.gz
| | |-- multilib-testing.files.tar.gz
| | `-- multilib-testing.files.tar.gz.old
| |-- pool
| | |-- community [4429 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| | `-- packages [7718 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| `-- testing
| `-- os
| |-- i686 [83 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
| `-- x86_64 [83 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
`-- log
|-- lighttpd
| `-- error.log
`-- sync
`-- upstream
|-- 2011-06.log.gz
|-- 2011-07.log.gz
|-- 2011-08.log.gz
|-- 2011-09.log.gz
|-- 2011-10.log.gz
`-- error.log.gz