Hi! > The trouble is that there is no easy way for a down stream mirror to > select just portions of debian such as "stable i386". > > I know that you can use utilities like "debmirror" or mirror scripts > with regular expressions to exclude the parts that you do not want, > but it is not a trivial exercise. (I have first hand experience of this, I > have kept a mirror of the "stable i386" and the "soon to be stable > i386" portions, such as "frozen" and "testing", of debian for over 4 > years. Keeping it valid and up to date has been like chasing a > moving target, year after year.) have a look at: http://blue.frogfoot.net/unix/debian/ Lean Debian Mirror Config - mirrors i386 Architecture only - aims to mirror only the English subset of Debian - does not mirror the Linux kernel source - only mirrors the 1.44 format boot disks > This is particularly in a problem in places like South Africa, where > bandwidth is 10 times the price of that in the USA or Europe. As an > example, the debian mirror on "ftp.linux.org.za" has not been > updated since 1 April 2001. This site is hosted on "ftp.is.co.za", > probably the biggest publicly accessible mirror in this country. i had the same problem, we run an ISP in South Africa and the official debian mirrors in ZA suck. root@swim:/home/ftp/linux/debian# du 5626464 . 5Gig, i run the mirror on weekends, takes about a day to run. takes forever to mirror home over a 64k line :) -- Regards Johann Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of DLT tapes going 60Km/h. ______________________________________________________ Johann Botha Snailmail: PO Box 3472 +27.82.5626.167 Matieland joe@frogfoot.net Stellenbosch workpage: http://www.frogfoot.net 7602 homepage: http://blue.frogfoot.net South Africa Copyright (c) 2001. The Sovereigns of Frogfoot. All rights reserved. Disclaimer available upon request.
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