Re: Debian mirror scripts

[Cajus Pollmeier <cajus@naasa.net>]

Am 30.01.2005 um 16:01 schrieb Thiemo Seufer:

> Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release
> > files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I
> > currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to
> > get up to date packages.
> >
> > Tried to work around this with a simple script that merges my
> > packages into the local mirror and regenerates everything as
> > needed. But sadly this doesn't seem to be perfect :-( The installer
> > just doesn't want to get some of these packages, even if the md5's
> > are correct. Switching from http to ftp gets some more of them and
> > stucks some packages later. Grrr.
>
> You might want to compare your script with the one for partial d-i
> test mirrors, available from d-i SVN in trunk/scripts/testmirror.

Here's the result of some testing:

debpool:	is fine for new pools, but recreating the whole mirror with
		.deb and .udeb packages didn't work and I'm not the perl
		guy who's capable of fixing it.
dak:		too complicated for fire and forget
mirrorer:	not tested because alioth is still down
departialmirror: not a package, after resolving some dependencies,
		it actually did not do what I wanted.

Finally I fixed the quick'n dirty bash script. It lacks features like 
gpg
signing, SHA entries in Releases, etc., but for a local test mirror its
failrly enough ;-) If someone's interested, I can clean it up an put it
somewhere.

Thanks for your hints!

Cheers,
Cajus