Re: Plans for debian-cd
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, George Danchev wrote:
> >
> >> There has been already some kind of code around which should be investigated
> >> how to be involved in such situations. The package debmirror scans
> >> Packages/Sources files and supports --include and --exclude options which
> >> should be possible to achive a partial mirror with just desired packages
> >> feeded by debian-cd. I'm not sure if apt-move could be of any help here also.
> >
> > debmirror is too limited as it stands, but may contain some useful code.
> >
> > Phil.
>
> debmirror2 (comming now that sarge is out of the way) will have better
> filter capabilities for that and reprepro (cvs version) can also be
> used (see example in BTS for reprepro).
Finagle's Law strikes again. I have just finished my own mirroring script
because debmirror could not do what I wanted.
Phil.
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