RE: Mirroring the distributions
Solved (a) (thanks Marc Mongeon), but I'm no nearer on (b)
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Sargent
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 12:09 PM
> To: 'peter@bartosch.net'; 'Debian User List'
> Subject: RE: Mirroring the distributions
>
> My biggest problem is that I'm behind a paranoid firewall which blocks
> access to the rsync port :-(
>
> I followed up on the www.debian.org/mirror/ site that I was given by Eric
> Farris. That suggests using mirror to do the job, but that's been giving
> me problems.
>
> a) It complains about my RE for the exclude_patt. Hopefully it's opbious
> what I'm trying to do, but can anybody explain why I get
> String found where operator expected at (eval 10) line 1, near
> "*\''"
> (Missing Operator before ''?)
> b) I get Failure at end of remote_directory () becuase: remote server has
> gone away. I think the file list is so long that something times out
> before it's fuly transfered.
>
> Anybody Help?
>
> Paul
>
> P.S. Here is my mirror/package file. I'm trying to filter out all alpha,
> m68k, sparc, ppc, and old distributions. All I want to mirror is x86,
> stable and unstable.
>
> package=debian
> comment=Debain Archive
> site=ftp.uk.debian.org
> remote_dir=/debian/dists/
> local_dir=/home/pauls/debian/dists
> mode_copy=true
> make_bad_symlinks=true
>
> exclude_patt='.*alpha.deb|.*m68k.deb|.*powerpc.deb|.*sparc.deb|.*\/bo.*|.*
> \/sid.*'
> max_delete_files=50%
> max_delete_dirs=50%
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Bartosch
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 10:34 PM
> To: Paul Sargent
> Subject: Re: Mirroring the distributions
>
>
> have a look at "rsync", it uses a checksum-algorithm to transport
> only those
> parts of a file, which are needed
>
>
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