Re: hellish symlinks in archive

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> 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?

Here is mine:  (symlinks to nonexistant files/dirs are not made by mirror)

  package=defaults
        site=ftp.debian.org
        remote_dir=/debian
        local_dir=linux/debian
        local_ignore+|^local/
        exclude_patt+|(^|/)(ls-|.ls-|source/|\..*|.*\.tar\.gz$|.*\.diff\.gz$|
  WebPages|debian-bugs/|debian-manual/|debian-lists/|kernel/|
  Packages$|Contents$|md5sums$|Maintainers$|Packages-|buzz|
  [Ii]ncoming|.*-alpha|.*-sparc|.*-m68k|.*-ppc|\ )

  package=debian
        use_files=true


(The "exclude_patt" is all on one line, actually.)
                                             
                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
                                             
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