I'm mirroring the binary-i386 portion of the Debian distribution on a machine at work because my company (actually huge corporate entity) has a firewall, naturally. Moreover, this firewall has some very non-standard proxies that I have not been able to get to work with the apt method of dselect. My mirror machine has a modem and that gives me normal access to the Internet (though very slow), but at least I have a machine within the company intranet that has a Debian distribution that I can use to support my other machines.
My question has to do with the naming of directories in the Debian distribution. I've been mirroring 'stable' now for a while -- main/binary-all, main/binary-i386, contrib/binary-all, contrib/binary-i386, and non-free/binary-all, non-free/binary-i386. Now I decided to start mirroring 'unstable', with the same portions of the distribution as above. But I'm running into problems because 'stable' and 'unstable' are soft links to 'hamm' and 'slink' I guess and in unstable/main/binary-all/<something> there are links to hamm/main/binary-all/<something> instead of to stable/main/binary-all/<something>. When mirror tries to link the files it fails on my system because I don't have a hamm directory, only stable. So this seems to mean that I must not use 'stable' and 'unstable', but 'hamm' and 'slink'. So I guess if I want to mirror only part of the distribution (binary-all and binary-i386) I need to manually add the soft links between the code name of the distribution (e.g. slink) and the canonical name of the distribution (e.g. unstable). I was trying to stay away from the code names and use only the canonical names. Is this right?
