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...
Read what people tell you. You need to mirror every package listed in
Packages file for having a complete Woody. If you do that, only those
130 packages will be downloaded. You don't need at all the whole
potato tree.
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Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
jsogo@debian.org
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