hellish symlinks in archive

["Nathan O. Siemers" <nathan@protos.bms.com>]

Zoikes.

You know, it is not straightforward to keep *only* the intel binaries
mirrored on another machine. I did write a preliminary mirror config file:

package=debian
site=ftp.caldera.com
remote_dir=/pub/mirrors/debian
local_dir=/usr3/people/nathan/src/debian
get_patt=(binary-all/|non-free/binary-i386/|non-free/binary/|contrib\
/binary-i386/|contrib/binary/|buzz/binary/|buzz/binary-i386/|buzz-updates\
/binary/|buzz-updates/binary-i386/|buzz-fixed/binary/|buzz-fixed/\
binary-i386/|rex/binary-i386/|rex/binary/)

Does anyone have a better config file for this purpose?

I then used dselect to install some new files from
buzz-fixed. However, despite the seemingly infinite number of symbolic
links in the archive, certain things (like
binary/devel/kernel-source...) have *not* been linked here. Should
they be?

Help! (and thanks)

nathan