Re: mirror & follow symlinks? (Will be: I feel so stupid now)

[Dick Arnold <darnold@fgi.net>]

joost witteveen wrote:
> 
> How do I mirror hamm-only, so that mirror actually gets the files
> of the packages that still reside in bo, rather than only the symlinks
> to them?
> 
> Now I've got:
> 
> package=debian-hamm
>   site= ftp.nl.net
>   local_dir=/home/joost/debian/hamm
>   remote_user=anonymous
>   remote_password=joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl
>   get_patt=(binary-i386|binary-all|source/base|source/utils|source/net|source/admin)
>   remote_dir=/site/ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm
>   do_deletes=true
> 
> But on my mirror, I get:
> 
> ../doc$ ls -al pj97n08_2.deb
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 joost    users          34 Sep 15 04:16 pj97n08_2.deb -> ../../binary-all/doc/pj97n08_2.deb
> 
> OK, I'm _sure_ this has been asked millions of times here, and I'm sure it
> is in the docs, but I really couldn't find any reference to "symlink",
> "follow", "whatever", "hell", in the documentation. I feel so stupid.
> (It isn't "follow_local_symlinks", isn't it? I want remote symlinks to
> be followed, not local ones).
> 
> Thanks ever so much,
> 
> --
> joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
> 
> The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different
> than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so.
> 
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Dick Arnold


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