Re: Kudos to BootCD!

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote:

> I've posted these a bunch:
> 
> /a/l/*.deb - The set of .debs which is the "current" plus "new"
>        dpkg-scanpackages is run on this
> /a/o/YYMMDD_HHNNSS/*.deb - the debs which were replaced at
>                            HH:NN:SS on MM/DD/20YY.
> /a/o/LYYMMDD_HHNNSS.gz - the state of /a/l at a point in time
> /a/o/AYYMMDD_HHNNSS.gz - all packages available to be installed
>                          at a point in time.
> 
> /a/x: a script:

okay... i'm confused ... what does each subdir dor ??
( /a/l and /a/o and /a/u and /a/a  and /a/x .. etc..etc.. )
	- granted i started looking and kinda backed out
	without digging into each line of code ( why so many /a subdirs )

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if i wanted a time stamp at a particular time:

	tar zcvf DATE.tgz the whole-local-tree
	or do incrementals of only the changed stuff ..

	and burn onto cdrom ( if its critical to not mess it up )

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after apt-get update && upgrade, why not just use apt-move to move
/var/lib/cache into /home/httpd/local-deb-mirror ?

	/etc/apt-move.conf is fairly simple to config/modify
		...
		LOCALDIR=/home/httpd/html/DebianMirror

	"apt-move update" which is the equivalent of:
		apt-move get
		apt-move move
		apt-move delete
		apt-move packages

	- granted this only mirrors/moves the files used on the
	server and not the entire tree

c ya
alvin