Re: ,deb's follow Packages files to mirrors: nuts or what?
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- Subject: Re: ,deb's follow Packages files to mirrors: nuts or what?
- From: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:33:43 +0200
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- In-reply-to: <20040901000937.GA28280@riva.ucam.org> (Colin Watson's message of "Wed, 1 Sep 2004 01:09:37 +0100")
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Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 05:02:10PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Sure, but in that case you can fetch those without installing them,
>> figure out what to mirror, and then install your modified files.
>
> Yeah, that would make sense. Anyone want to implement that in debmirror?
> :-)
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
debmirror (20040729) unstable; urgency=low
* Download meta files to temp directory first (Closes: #219977)
MfG
Goswin
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