Re: Unique kernel with my own backup of all Debian repositories
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 8:15 PM John E Petersen wrote:
> If I find it is possible to simply download the entire collection, without having to host a mirror, I may very well go that route.
That is definitely possible, there are two sides to every Debian
mirror: 1) downloading Debian 2) making the files available on the
web. The second part is definitely optional and many Debian folks do
just the first part in order to serve their personal machines with
Debian packages.
> If I continue the scraping route, would adding wait time in my loop between downloads make my repeated access less of a problem? I would like to let it run until it is finished. It is tedious to restart my scrape periodically.
Please use the ftpmirror method recommended by Étienne, it is more
likely to produce a correct result than scraping and much less likely
to get blocked. The Debian archive is only updated every six hours, so
it would be a waste of bandwidth to update more often than that.
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pabs
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