disks-i386

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

I was watching my mirror run and noticed that there are quite a few large
files under the "disks-i386" directory.  There are also quite a few with
the same apparent name.

1200_base_floppy-1             1440_base_floppy-3           
1200_base_floppy-2             1440_boot_floppy-1.3.100-0.gz
1200_base_floppy-3             1440_boot_floppy-1.3.100-1.gz
1200_base_floppy-4             1440_boot_floppy-1.3.100-2.gz
1200_boot_floppy.gz            1440_boot_floppy-1.3.100-3.gz
1440_base_floppy-1             1440_boot_floppy-1.3.100-4.gz
1440_base_floppy-2             1440_boot_floppy.gz

There are also subdirectories like "1996_5_21" and "Old" that have files
I'm pretty sure are redundant.  I'd like to keep the latest set of base
install disks, but because I have a small pipe I can't really afford to
mirror the rest of the files.

Is there a pattern I can give to "exclude_patt" under mirror so I will
only get the install floppies?  Alternatively, is there any way the file
structure of the distribution could be modified slightly to make such a
pattern possible?

                                        Brian
                               ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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