Bug#128818: apt-get update using rsync protocol

[Radim Kolar <hsn@cybermail.net>]

Hi, 
 here is my code for doing that:

#! /usr/bin/python
#  GPL v2 code. Radim Kolar
import string
import os

SOURCES='/etc/apt/sources.list'
LISTS='/var/lib/apt/lists/'
ARCH='i386'
RSYNCOPT='-t -b'

#read sources.list
f=open(SOURCES)
lines=f.readlines()
f.close()

for line in lines:
    data=line.split()
    if len(data)==0:
	continue # skip empty lines
    if data[0][0:0]=='#':
        continue # and comments
    if data[0]!='deb':
	continue # we are not interrested in them also
    if data[1][0:5]=='cdrom':
	continue # no CD
    i=string.find(data[1],"://")
    if i==-1: continue
    basefn=data[1][i+3:]
    
    #data[2]==distribution
    #data[3]..parts
    basefn=basefn+'/dists/'+data[2]+'/'
    for part in data[3:]:
	fn=basefn+part
	fn=fn+"/binary-"+ARCH+"/Packages"
	COMMAND='rsync '+RSYNCOPT+' rsync://'+fn+' '+LISTS+string.replace(fn,'/','_')
        print COMMAND
	os.system(COMMAND)

os.system('apt-cache gencaches')