On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:22:13PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Friday 14 March 2003 13:37, Oliver Kurth wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:12:37PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Friday 14 March 2003 10:07, Oliver Kurth wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > These are packages that were not updated since potato. Not using the > > > > potato directory would mean that they have to be copied, consuming more > > > > mirror space. I don see a problem here, a proper mirror script should > > > > cope with that. > > > > > > The only problem is that some mirrors don't have the potato tree any > > > more, so debootstraping from them is impossible :-/ > > > > Well, then these mirrors are broken, because they do not mirror the > > whole distribution, I'd say. Tell the admins that they should fix it. > > The problem is that they probably don't want to mirror the whole potato tree, > which is several GB of data, while only 132 packages upon thousands can be > useful for woody... By risking to repeat myself ;-) : use a proper mirror script, which uses the Packages file to determine which files to mirror. Greetings, Oliver -- .''`. : :' : Oliver Kurth oku@debian.org `. `' Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.org `-
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