Re: Is there a smart mirror?

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

Matt Kopishke <kopishke@midcoast.com> writes:
> I currently maintain a small debian mirror for a local computer user group.
> I run mirror daily to keep up with the latest version of potato and
> woody.   We have one problem, mirror is quite good at getting the newest
> packages, but it keeps the old ones.  This is quite a problem if you are
> working with limited disk space. So, what I am asking, is there a smart
> mirror like program out there?

You're using just the standard "mirror" utility, version 2.9? If so
are you using a package file? I'm not even sure if you can use mirror
without a package file, but you might want to come up with one if
you're not. Once you have this file mirror will do the deletes if you
set this in your package file:

do_deletes=true

You may also want to twiddle the "max_deletes" variable to suit your
needs. All of this should be covered in the manual and/or doc that
comes with mirror.

Gary