On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:49:41 +0200 Hector Oron <hector.oron@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Some people is trying to mirror emdebian.org repositories, afaict > Andrew Lee is wanting to set up a mirror for ftp.tw.debian.org and a > guy on IRC called BuGless1 is wanting to do so for a NL mirror. I > know we have a rsyncd running for a guy mirroring from Canada (IIRC). There are a number of reasons why this is NOT a good idea right now. I've covered some in the other post to the list. http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2009/09/msg00038.html > Anyway, I am posting here, to coordinate efforts and do it the best > way we can think of. > > A) Mirroring Don't - at least, not for Grip and not yet. (There is little point mirroring Crush as it doesn't currently work as intended and is not being updated.) Instead, if you have space (>10Gb) available on a reasonably fast machine with a very good internet connection, install emdebian-grip-server and add packages to Grip that do not currently exist - things like other small lightweight GUI environments, missing utilities, more (small) games, more (small) artwork or font packages. . . . Don't bother duplicating the packages that are already available - the filter system allows you to select only those packages you need, even if that results in missing dependencies. You're aiming for a complementary server, not a mirror. You select which packages get added by explicit calls to em_autogrip - nothing gets added unless you want it (work on an automated dependency resolver function was aborted as the output of edos-debcheck is not sufficiently easy to parse reliably). > It has been suggested to use ftpsync[1] what really it is what > Debian uses[2]. But current rsyncd is not providing useful > information, it might need to be fixed. Mirroring the current setup won't work well because of issues described in the other post - the archive is currently changing almost constantly and rsync just doesn't get a chance to work before it changes again. > B) Listing the mirrors B) Listing the complementary buildds: What we need is additional apt sources that people can choose to use in order to get a particular package set either via multistrap or on the machines running Grip itself. I also need bug reports from people running such services in order to improve emdebian-grip-server. Until certain technical issues are resolved with the www.emdebian.org server, I would strongly recommend that nobody mirrors www.emdebian.org/grip - it is only likely to make things worse with regard to workload. > C) emdebian.org /debian > > As for toolchains we provide emdebian.org/debian (which it should > be included in Debian main sometime) but while it happens, should we > change emdebian.org/debian to something else, so we can share same > directories with Debian main? Or should people mirroring to a > ftp.XX.debian.org/emdebian.org/debian like URL? > For crush and grip there is no such issue. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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