Re: checking mirror state?

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

Magosanyi Arpad <mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu> writes:
>I have a debian mirror... Is there a script somewhere to check its
>consistency before I roast a CD from it?

You can use "find" to look for broken symlinks:

  find . -follow | grep "No such"

You can also use md5sum as suggested by Kai Henningsen last week:

> cd /where/the/mirror/is
> 
> md5sum < indices/md5sum
> 
> Possibly filter the input or output for stuff you're not mirroring, for  
> example like this:
> 
> .... 2>&1| grep -Ev '^md5sum:.can.t.open.*(/source/|-m68k/|-alpha/|-sparc/)'
  
                                        - Jim Van Zandt


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