Bug#652125: O: mirror -- keeps FTP archives up-to-date
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I intend to orphan the mirror package.
Mirror is written in Perl and is intended for use by ftp and web
masters but is obsolete and has no active upstream maintainer.
The package description is:
Mirror uses the FTP protocol to locally duplicate remote host files and
directories selected with Perl regular expressions. By default transfers
only files missing locally or whose remote sizes or time-stamps have changed.
Can reduce directory download using compressed listings in ls-lR.gz files
or further using compressed differences of daily listings in ls-lR.patch.gz
files. Can read mirrored Packages.gz files and mirror just their specified
fraction of Debian from pool/. Amongst many flexible options it can gzip
and split files. Tracks large distant FTP archives accurately with low
download volume.
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Simpler programs like "mirrordir", "rsync" or "wget" use less memory and may
copy directory trees faster between local machines.
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