Re: idea for a new debian mailserver?
hilliard@metrolink.net (Robert D. Hilliard) writes:
> I think this would be an abysmally bad idea. I maintain a local
> mirror of hamm, and it requires 18 to 20 hours a week fetching new
> packages. This is done at night, while network loads are relatively
> light. If this came in by mail, it would usually be during the day,
> when the net is heavily loaded and slower. I typically retrieve mail
> by fetchmail 2 - 8 times a day, staying on line from 30 seconds to 5
> minutes at a time. If new packages were coming in the mail, this
> would change to hours of waiting for my mail, which would be
> unacceptable.
What you really want if you don't have room for a mirror is to just
use something like dftp which will fetch all the updated packages.
Run it at night, and you're done. I would guess that you could even
still use dselect as long as dftp put them where dselect would find
them.
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