On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:36:02AM +0100, Johann Glaser wrote: > Hi! > > Why are there so many packages in Woody, Sarge and Sid coming from > Potato? > > I'm administrating a debian mirror (only i386-Packages). It mirrors > Woody, Sarge and Sid, but not Potato. When installing a new Debian > system via the network from our mirror, the installer breakes with an > error message saying "couldn't get libident". > > Now I looked in all Packages.gz files. Unfortunately a lot .debs don't > come from the pool/ directory but from potato! > 132 package files for Woody > 86 package files for Sarge > 63 package files for Sid Just mirror all files that are mentioned in Packages. See eg. http://masqmail.cx/debiansync/ for a script. But there are lots of others. > Look to the attached file (31666 Bytes) for a list. This wasn't really necessary, we all know how to use grep ;-). > Why is it that way? When can we expect that these distris don't depend > on Potato any more? 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. Greetings, Oliver -- .''`. : :' : Oliver Kurth oku@debian.org `. `' Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.org `-
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