Re: Mirroring apt repositories?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:30:35AM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:10:37AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> > have you looked at the debmirror package? it does this pretty well,
> > and has examples at the bottom of the manpage. however, i think
> > it only does rsync and ftp. wonder why it doesn't do http...
>
> Well http is not that easy to parse and handle when you try to mirror a
> whole dir recursiv especially when directory index is forbidden.
Sure, but debmirror doesn't need to do directory indexing because it
uses Packages files to figure out what to download, so that's
irrelevant. Bug #154364 contains a patch which adds HTTP support (I
haven't tried it myself).
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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