SOLVED (was Re: Problems mirroring debian-multimedia)

[Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>]

Marty wrote:
> Since the change from marillat to debian-multimedia I have not yet found a 
> satisfactory way of mirroring debian-multimedia. The site does not seem to offer 
> anonymous rsync or ftp, and wget and debmirror don't work as I expect them to.

Replying to my own posting, I have found what appears to be a suitable method
using lftp, which can do http transfers.  I still don't know why it only works 
when I mirror the pool and dist subdirectories separately:


  lftp -c 'open http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool; mirror -x .*-powerpc.*\
  -x .*-mips.* -x .*-arm.* -x .*m68k.* -x .*sparc.* -x .*amd64.* -x .*ia64.* \
  -x .*-alpha.* -x .*_alpha.* -x .*hppa.*  --verbose=3 --delete . \
  /mirror/debian-multimedia/pool'

  lftp -c 'open http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists; mirror -x .*-powerpc.*\
  -x .*-mips.* -x .*-arm.* -x .*m68k.* -x .*sparc.* -x .*amd64.* -x .*ia64.* \
  -x .*-alpha.* -x .*_alpha.* -x .*hppa.*  --verbose=3 --delete . \
  /mirror/debian-multimedia/dists'