On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 01:47:38PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 03:29:42PM +0100, Christian Zapf wrote: > > Hello PowerPeople > > > > I'd like to try to install Debian on my PowerMac box, but I'm already > > stuck when it comes to downloading the whole binary-powerpc tree. Every > > ftp client I tried to use for a recursive get thinks that the sym links > > are directories, tries to "cd" there, gets an error (since it's actually > > a link to a file), and skips. I noticed that most of these links go into > > a few other trees, like one or two binary-all. > > > > Maybe I could just download the whole bin-ppc tree without these linked > > files, and then download the few trees like this binary-all directory. > > But I'd like to make sure that I don't miss anything. > > > > If anybody knows about an FTP client that can recursively download and > > doesn't get fooled because of these links, just tell me. I have Macs, > > PCs (NT or Linux) and Suns around me, the client does not need to be for > > MacOS. > > I highly recommend using wget, and an http mirror instead of an ftp > mirror. It transfers symlinks as real files.
lftp ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-powerpc mirror -c -e -L will do the trick also, the -L option tells lftp to get the files from symlinks. Actually what i do is mirror binary-ppc normaly, and binary-all with the -L option. you can also put all this stuff in a file, and do a lftp -f filename, very nice. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
