On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 16:32:49 +0200, William Brioschi wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:13:12PM -0300, Carlos Barros wrote: > >> I realize that apt-move could be a wonderfull tool. Now I have a local >> mirror of potato/{i386,all,sparc}/{main,contrib,non-free} <AOL>Me Too</AOL> I've written a small perl script, that tackles the deletion of duplicate (modulo version numbers) Debian packages. Focus also was on completely *local* operation, since I have a slow dialup internet connection, but also access at my university (data transfer via DAT) ... :-) I'm using it since 1999/08, and it didn't eat my mirrors until now... Maybe, it's worth to be included in the apt-move package? Have a look at the perldoc-manpage for usage examples... (script is attached) As, always, comments very welcome. Cheers, Michael, waiting in n-m queue -- Never buy anything that mentions Windows on the package. Except sheets of glass. Or plastic. And that smelly blue stuff that removes dirt without leaving a residue. -- jhickle@pgh.nauticom.net in c.o.l.d.s.
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