<div dir="ltr"><h1 id="gmail-__asciidoctor-preview-0__" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:2.75em;margin:1em 0px 0.5em;font-family:"Open Sans","DejaVu Sans",sans-serif;font-weight:300;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(186,57,37);padding:0px;direction:ltr;word-spacing:-0.05em;letter-spacing:-0.01em"></h1><div id="gmail-__asciidoctor-preview-1__" class="gmail-paragraph" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:"Noto Serif","DejaVu Serif",serif,serif;font-size:16px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;line-height:1.6;padding:0px;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit;font-size:1.0625em;letter-spacing:-0.01em">Greetings All,</p></div><div id="gmail-__asciidoctor-preview-2__" class="gmail-paragraph" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:"Noto Serif","DejaVu Serif",serif,serif;font-size:16px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;line-height:1.6;padding:0px;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit;font-size:1.0625em;letter-spacing:-0.01em">For the November 13, 2019 CALUG meeting we will have a presentation from Evan Bolt on Linux Mirroring Made Easy.</p></div><div id="gmail-__asciidoctor-preview-3__" class="gmail-paragraph" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:"Noto Serif","DejaVu Serif",serif,serif;font-size:16px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;line-height:1.6;padding:0px;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit;font-size:1.0625em;letter-spacing:-0.01em">Every major Linux distribution depends on some package manager which pulls software from a mirror server. During an internship, Evan Bolt was given the task of creating some Linux repositories for Dakota State University. After learning how many of the main distros (Arch, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu) do their mirroring, he decided to create a generic script for distros that just used a few rsync commands. However, Debian (and some derivatives) make use of their own script called 'ftpsync' (which still uses rsync). He decided to write a tool that allows for deploying using either Debian’s tool for known supported distros or by using his custom script. Out of that project came 'mirror-deploy' (working title). This script will deploy a full Linux mirror (minus a web server, that feature is to be added), a directory structure to keep scripts for each distribution organized, and logging for each distro.</p></div><div id="gmail-__asciidoctor-preview-4__" class="gmail-paragraph" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:"Noto Serif","DejaVu Serif",serif,serif;font-size:16px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;line-height:1.6;padding:0px;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit;font-size:1.0625em;letter-spacing:-0.01em">Evan Bolt is a recent graduate from Dakota State University with an M.S in Applied Computer Science and a B.S in Cyber Operations. He has been a Linux user for 3 years and is currently a researcher at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. You can find his work at GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/ejbolt" class="gmail-bare" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33,86,165);background:transparent;line-height:inherit">https://github.com/ejbolt</a> (it’s pretty bare, but the mirror scripts live there).</p></div><div id="gmail-__asciidoctor-preview-5__" class="gmail-paragraph" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:"Noto Serif","DejaVu Serif",serif,serif;font-size:16px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;line-height:1.6;padding:0px;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit;font-size:1.0625em;letter-spacing:-0.01em">We will be hosted at the UMBC Training Center, located at 6996 Columbia Gateway Dr #100, Columbia, MD 21046. When you walk in through the mail lobby make a right. We will be at the end of the hall in the last room on the right. Our friends at Aplura will be providing the pizza and soda starting at 6:30. The talk will start at about 7pm.</p></div><div id="gmail-__asciidoctor-preview-6__" class="gmail-paragraph" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:"Noto Serif","DejaVu Serif",serif,serif;font-size:16px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;line-height:1.6;padding:0px;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit;font-size:1.0625em;letter-spacing:-0.01em">We are looking for speakers for the upcoming months. If you have a topic you would like to present on, please let me know and I’ll get you scheduled.</p></div><div id="gmail-__asciidoctor-preview-7__" class="gmail-ulist gmail-unstyled" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:"Noto Serif","DejaVu Serif",serif,serif;font-size:16px"><ul class="gmail-unstyled" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.25em;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