Re: mirroring just binary-i386 files

[Dietmar Schultz <dietmar@bibo.escape.de>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:24:22AM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote:

> I'm currently using mirror, but run into a series of problems:

I don't, so here are my mirror config:

<snip>

package=Debian
    #
    comment=Mirroring parts of ftp.debian.org:/debian
    #
    site=ftp.de.debian.org
    remote_dir=/debian
    local_dir=/home/ftp/debian
    #
    remote_user=ftp
    remote_password=your@e.mail.com
    #
exclude_patt=(Packages-Master|Contents|binary|disks|upgrade)-(alpha|m68k|sparc|arm|hurd-i386|powerpc|mips|mipsel|sparc64|hppa|sh|s390|ia64)($|/|\.gz$)
exclude_patt+|_(alpha|m68k|sparc|arm|hurd-i386|powerpc|mips|mipsel|sparc64|hppa|sh|s390|ia64)\.
    exclude_patt+|source(/|$)

exclude_patt+|^ls-lR|Packages-all-nomsdosnames\.gz$|\.orig\.tar\.gz$|\.diff\.gz$|\.dsc$||pool.*\.tar\.gz$
    exclude_patt+|Packages$|^indices/md5sums$|^indices/Maintainers$
    exclude_patt+|indices/msdos-name|dsync\.list$|^Archive
    exclude_patt+|indices/md5sums\.gz$
    #
    max_delete_files=50%
    max_delete_dirs=50%
    save_deletes=true
    save_dir=/home/ftp/pub/Old
    #
    ls_lR_file=ls-lR.gz
    #
    update_log=ftp.debian.org.log
    local_dir_check=true
    use_files=false

</snip>

You might want to change some settings but basicly it works fine.


> Does rsync give better control over link expansion than mirror?

The absurd_debmirror script works fine, too. Just try...

> Does some form of apt support permanently mirroring a distribution?
> (Permanently as opposed to whichever cache it is that apt asks if
> you want to purge?)
 
Take a look at apt-move and apt-proxy
 
-- 
Bye,
Dietmar