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Re: Debian mirror scripts



Hello Goswin,

* Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> [2005-01-30 21:23]:
> Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> writes:
> > * Cajus Pollmeier <cajus@naasa.net> [2005-01-30 15:26]:
> >> I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release
> >> files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I
> >> currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to
> >> get up to date packages.
> >> 
> >> Tried to work around this with a simple script that merges my
> >> packages into the local mirror and regenerates everything as
> >> needed. But sadly this doesn't seem to be perfect :-( The installer
> >> just doesn't want to get some of these packages, even if the md5's
> >> are correct. Switching from http to ftp gets some more of them and
> >> stucks some packages later. Grrr.
> >> 
> >> So let's try this way: Is there a ready to use script which I didn't 
> >> find
> >> by googling around yet?
> >
> > what about debmirror?
> > regards nico
> 
> Debmirror is purely a mirror tool. It will download the Meta files
> just like any other file.
> 
> You can easily switch between mirror of equal contents but not create
> Packages files reflecting what is locally available.

ok thanks, i understand.
regards nico
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