Package: debmirror Version: 1:2.47 Tags: patch The current Version of debmirror has a lot of Problems when attempting to mirror Custom Repositories.
Please keep in Mind that I'm not a PERL Developer so all the Modifications are best guesses based on the current Code and some Examples that I could find online. It is by no means super accurate in terms of indentation, variable names, code style, etc. There are furthermore some verbose/debug Messages that are currently a bit messy (not very pretty), since I had to identify e.g. the full URL or File Path that the File was being downloaded from/to. This might need to be better cleaned up in an official (upstreamed) Revision. I cloned the original Repository from https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debmirror, then I uploaded my modifications and some Examples at https://github.com/luckylinux/debmirror/tree/custom_mirrors_better_support (Branch: custom_mirrors_better_support). I also provided quite a few Examples of BASH Scripts invoking debmirror Command, which can be tested against the current Upstream Release: https://github.com/luckylinux/debmirror/tree/custom_mirrors_better_support/examples_custom_repositories. I cannot remember exactly which Repositories had Issues, but I'd say it's roughly 30-50% of those Examples that had Issues. Nevertheless, both the Examples as well as the Repositories themselves, can be used as a "test Case" for e.g. some Automated Testing in the Future (if somebody can/wants to set that up). As indicated in the README.md File of the Repository, Issues include Customs Repositories featuring: - Flat Repository Structure - Abscence of dists/ in the URL Path (also when Repository Structure isn't itself flat) - GPG Issues with Release.gpg / Release, whereas InRelease works correctly - Specify a custom User Agent (needed in particular for those Repositories on/behind Cloudflare that would otherwise get blocked) - codename not matching dist in Packages / Release Files - ... There could be a few extra Issues that I forgot to explicitly List but that I already fixed in the Code. Notes (found after modifying the Code): - The Argument --keyring: since multiple Values didn't seem to work the first Time I tried, I also implemented a --keyring=key1,key2 (comma sepated List), which could potentially be avoided since now, after another attempt, --keyring=key1 --keyring=key2 seemed to work. - The Upstream master Branch IIRC is now on Version 2.49 (this patch was based on the debmirror Script/Executable installed on Debian Trixie, i.e. Version 2.47) - On https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debmirror there seems to be a Branch (flat_repo_support) that might already be adding Support for Flat Repositories. Unsure if the Support is complete since I discovered it afterwards. There were a lot of Edge Cases (as mentioned above), so if you don't think that those modifications are needed, please test each example Case that I provided at https://github.com/luckylinux/debmirror/tree/custom_mirrors_better_support/examples_custom_repositories. It could be that a newer Version of debmirror (in the master Branch) already behaves correctly or I used some Command Line Options in a Way that is not correct. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of free Time to dedicate into maturing all of this into the quality probably required to be up-streamed. Nevertheless I believe that it would be beneficial to share my Modifications, since they could be useful for many other Users in similar Situations. I'll try to follow up on this and help the community, however I believe that the proper patching / addition of Features is better done by the upstream Maintainer (or somebody already contributing to the Project and with a better knowledge of PERL compared to me). Kind Regards, luckylinux.
