Re: debmirror'ing (sarge,etch,sid)x(amd64,i386)

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov> writes:

> Sorry if this is an FAQ but I came up empty,
>
> I'd like to mirror the the 6 combinations of sarge,etch,sid and
> amd64,i386 using debmirror.
>
> Here is how I'm calling debmirror:
>
>     mirrordir=/local.dsk/raid0/ftp/pub/debian
>     log=/local.dsk/raid0/mirror/log/mirror.debian.log
>
>     args="--nosource --method=http --proxy=http://192.168.1.3:3128/ --dist=sarge,etch,sid"
>     args="$args --arch=i386 --verbose --ignore-small-errors --ignore-release-gpg"
>     #args="$args --host=mirror.anl.gov"
>
>     debmirror $args $mirrordir >> $log 2>&1
>
> When adding ",amd64" to the arch list I get an error: 
>
>   Won't mirror without dists/sarge/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
>   signature in Release at /usr/bin/debmirror line 1187.
>
> I found this:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2006/04/msg00173.html
>
> which explains the entry is correctly in amd64.debian.net's
> repository.  But it is lacking in the latest Release files in offical
> Sarge releases.
>
> So, is there some way to get debmirror to either merge in the
> Sarge-amd64 feed from an unofficial mirror with the other 5 retrieved
> from official mirrors.  Or, less desirable, to tell debmirror to
> ignore "amd64" just for Sarge?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Brett.

Use reprepro.

MfG
        Goswin