Re: mirror question

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

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Glenn English wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 22:14 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> > if you can post the config file for the mirroring method you're using,
> > maybe we can shave it off to be 10GB mirror ??
> 
> # EXCLUDE is a list of parameters listing patterns that rsync will
> exclude.

the exclude list can be bigger to minimize your local mirror size ..

see what you're getting ( ls -laR debian-mirror ) and add those 
junk that you don't want to the list below

> EXCLUDE="\
>   --exclude binary-alpha/
>   --exclude binary-arm/ \
>   --exclude binary-sparc/ \
>   --exclude binary-m68k/ \
>   --exclude binary-ia64/
>   --exclude binary-mips*/
>   --exclude binary-hppa/ \
>   --exclude binary-sh/
>   --exclude binary-s390/ \
>   --exclude *_alpha.deb
>   --exclude *_arm.deb \
>   --exclude *_sparc.deb \
>   --exclude *_m68k.deb \
>   --exclude *_ia64.deb
>   --exclude *_hppa.deb
>   --exclude *_sh.deb \
>   --exclude *_mips.deb
>   --exclude *_mipsel.deb
>   --exclude *_s390.deb \

*static.deb
*/doc/
*/lang/
*/proposed/

>   --exclude disks-alpha/
>   --exclude disks-arm/ \
>   --exclude disks-ia64/
>   --exclude disks-mips*/  \
>   --exclude disks-s390/
>   --exclude disks-sparc/ \
>   --exclude disks-m68k/ \
>   --exclude unstable/ \
>   --exclude source/ \
>  "

c ya
alvin