Reply-To: Hi, I've been installing hamm on a test partition a couple of times and have some questions now. First, my situation: 1. Nightly running: wget --mirror ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm -a /root/wget.log -X \ "*-alpha*,*-m68k*,*-powerpc*,*-sparc*,*source*"
a. Because I'm running i386, I felt that I wouldn't be needing any of those other directories. Correct? I'll d/load from source when the need arises. b. Is this a good method of mirroring hamm? So far it has been great except for one thing: - wget doesn't delete files locally that are no longer on the server. Is there a switch for this? (it causes problems later with dselect) 2. Installation a. In order to get dselect to behave, I had to make these symlinks: (I ran wget from /usr/local/debian) In /usr/local/debian/ftp.debian.org/pub/debian 1. contrib -> hamm/contrib 2. non-free -> hamm/non-free 3. stable -> hamm In /usr/local/debian/ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm 1. Contents.gz -> Contents-i386.gz 2. binary-i386 -> hamm/binary-i386 3. binary -> hamm/binary-i386 (don't know whether this one is needed, just saw it in bo) 4. Packages -> hamm/Packages Is that the correct way to handle things? Or is there a better method until hamm goes stable? b. Also I had to delete the obsolete (no longer mirrored) files from all the directories. Otherwise dselect will stop during the installion. Why? Or, is there a way I can tell dselect to ignore the extra files? c. Each time I install packages through dselect, it must go through every file in the archive and "decide" whether to install it or not. Is there a way I can tell dselect to only try to install the files I selected, rather than stepping through the whole tree? I appreciate any feedback! -- |- Mike Brownlow ----- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- http://ctelcom.net/mike/ ----| |- Prov. 16:9 "A man's heart deviseth his way: -- Use Linux to learn, -----| |----- but the Lord directeth his steps." ---- Use Win(NT|9[58]) to forget. -| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]