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Re: ,deb's follow Packages files to mirrors: nuts or what?



On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 03:17:53AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Goswin> Rsync mirrors alphabetically and then dists is before pool,
> Goswin> Packages before debs.
> 
> Well, then instead of
> $ rsync debian $destination
> we can do
> $ rsync debian/pool debian/dists $destination
> or
> $ rsync debian/pool $destination && rsync debian/dists $destination
> etc. etc. No?

Not if you're doing a partial mirror (e.g. unstable only), in which case
you need to have the Packages and Sources files first in order to work
out what to mirror.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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