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Re: mirroring potato only



On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Alberto Maurizi wrote:

> 	Hi all, I'm new to this list and I have a possibly 
> 	stupid question for you.
> 	I'd like to build potato cd-images from my local mirror.
> 	The mirror is made using rsync and excluding all but potato
> 	part of the tree (and preserving symlinks).
> 	The problem is that I noticed that a number of packages in
> 	"potato" are just symlinks to some "slink" packages.
> 	I wonder how to build a complete potato mirror without
> 	mirroring the whole slink tree.
> 	Any suggestion?

Hmmm. Maybe you can use find -lname to get a list of slink-symlinks, then feed
that to rsync _without_ preserving symlinks.


Regards,
  Anne Bezemer


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