Re: How to rsync unstable?

[Gary Lowder <gary@lowder.com>]

Bill,

I use debian's anonftpsync.  It works great.  You can use the EXCLUDES 
to fine tune exactly what you want downloaded.  Set it in a cronjob to 
run in the wee hours off of a mirror close to you.

http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync


My version of anonftpsync is below (just for an example of my changes 
relative to the original script).  NOTE: mine won't work right out of 
the box for you either, you'll need to change paths, etc.  I just 
provide it so you can see my version of the EXCLUDE, which is what makes 
anonftpsync tick.

http://mudbug.org/files/anonftpsync

My particular version is tuned to just get 'testing'.  I also don't want 
a lot of architecture specific files, so those are added to my personal 
excludes.  you could just change the line:
"--exclude stable/ --exclude unstable/ --exclude source/ \"
to:
"--exclude stable/ --exclude testing/ --exclude source/ \"

Hope this helped.

Gary.

Bill Wagner wrote:

> Does anyone have a script or something with which one can rsync a
> particular release (in my case, I'd like to keep a local mirror of
> unstable).
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Bill