Re: bo is full of symlinks to rex?
> Prior to the freezing of rex, "unstable" (rex) contained all of the
> physical files of the distribution.
>
> Now, "unstable" is "bo", and it has many links back to rex.
>
> At what point will "bo" loose the links to rex and be self-contained
> again?
The plan is to leave symlinks from "bo" to "rex" until the time that
"bo" is frozen.
> When the change occured, my mirror of "unstable" lost a bunch of files.
> Now I have to get both rex and bo. I think I can continually mirror
> "unstable" only, by careful use of the following option in mirror, but
> I haven't actually tried this yet:
>
> If the remote site contains symlinks that you want to "flat-
> ten out" into the corresponding files, then do this by
> changing the flags passed to the remote ls:
> flags_recursive+L
> or
> flags_nonrecursive+L
>
> First test this by trying a ls -lRatL on the remote site
> under the ftp command to check whether the remote file-store
> has any symlink loops.
>
> Anybody got a better method to mirror only the "unstable" tree
> efficiently?
We have the same problem here. I didn't know about the options you
describe. Unfortunately, that would disable all symlinks for the
entire Debian distribution unless you get "unstable" separately.
This is not too difficult to do, luckily.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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