Re: Packages from Potato
On Friday 14 March 2003 14:57, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> 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.
Not all mirrors use debmirror... some only use mirror... there's nothing you
can do about that except sending complaining emails to all these mirrors, or
simply circumvent the whole problem by relocating these packages inside the
pool.
By the way, the whole archive should be in the pool...
--
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
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