Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

[Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr>]

On 2012-04-10 20:48 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:

> In my case I simply set up a separate mirror for Lenny and pointed the
> upstream source to my local mirror.  Then ran the mirror script to
> pull the packages from the existing local mirror into the new lenny
> mirror.  The packages transfer very quickly since it is all local
> copying.
> 
> Then after that mirror was done then I updated the lenny,squeeze
> mirror to be squeeze only which automatically freed up the disk space
> consumed by the lenny packages.  This temporarily requires twice the
> amount of space of the packages from Lenny.  But it is only temporary.

Sneaky. I'll look if I can hack debmirror to avoid the copy.
Thanks.

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