Bug#652125: O: mirror -- keeps FTP archives up-to-date
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:55:23AM +1100, Ian Maclaine-cross wrote:
>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masters but is obsolete and has no active upstream maintainer.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.
> .
> Simpler programs like "mirrordir", "rsync" or "wget" use less memory and may
> copy directory trees faster between local machines.
If nobody else steps up, I'll take on the mirror package. I'm still
regularly using it for sites where other programs just don't work as
well / at all...
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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