Re: Packages from Potato
On Friday 14 March 2003 13:37, Oliver Kurth wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:12:37PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Friday 14 March 2003 10:07, Oliver Kurth wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > The only problem is that some mirrors don't have the potato tree any
> > more, so debootstraping from them is impossible :-/
>
> Well, then these mirrors are broken, because they do not mirror the
> whole distribution, I'd say. Tell the admins that they should fix it.
The problem is that they probably don't want to mirror the whole potato tree,
which is several GB of data, while only 132 packages upon thousands can be
useful for woody...
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