Re: mirrorcheck failing on potato packages
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:06:44PM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
>
> That said, I'm getting curious error messages from mirrorcheck in
> debian-cd. I've created a complete up-to-date mirror of woody/main and
> woody/contrib using debmirror. Everything seems to work okay except
> that mirrorcheck cannot find any of the potato packages that are part of
> woody. I have verified that they exist in $MIRROR/dists/potato/, where
> debmirror placed them.
Brandon's Law #38: Ask a question on a public mailing list and ye shall
arrive at your answer before your query has even been remailed.
Solution: The potato packages have been migrated into the package pool
and everything under dists/potato/ has been replaced with symlinks into
the package pool. The woody Packages files contain the path to the
symlinks, not the locations in pool. Turns out debmirror doesn't
invokve rsync with the --copy-links option, which copies the referent of
a symlink. I added this to debmirror and all is well.
Thanks,
Brandon D. Valentine
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