Re: Debian mirror scripts
Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> > Sure? Anyway DpartialMirror "http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/";
> > can.
> >
> A note of caution:
>
> | 2004-04-03 (wyo) Since Debian does not change its policy to add
> | adequate support for rsync'ing package mirrors, I don't actively
> | develop DpartialMirror further.
>
:-( Sad, isn't it?
> Any user of dpartialmirror should check out mirrorer from alioth. I
> only glanced at the webpage and haven't used dpartialmirror but now
> that mirrorer has filtering support it looks like mirrorer could
> replace dpartialmirror completly and I'm also thinking about retireing
> debmirror in favour of a wrapper to mirrorer.
>
I guess mirrorer doesn't care for bandwith saving as DpartialMirror,
correct me if I'm wrong.
O. Wyss
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