On 2003.07.18 19:00 Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > i am trying to create a local mirror of debian. i used this script > @ http://mirror.math.lsu.edu/mirrordebian (added time, links and > hard-links > option to rsync). > is what i am doing right? if so which source would be best to mirror > from? > > Karthik >
Yeah, I used that script too and it worked great. I was not interested in Spark architecture and deleted all the arch2 stuff. The only problem with it is that debmirror is in the unstable branch. It forced unstable upgrades of Perl and lib6c! This did not mater much on the first box I tried it on, which was a simple text only 180MHz Cyrix thing, but it is not a good thing to do to a "nice" computer with a full X and all. The package called perlapi is particularly difficult and is not always available. Wait a minute. Have you gotten the debmirror package? The rsync options in the script are just fine as they are, but it won't work without debmirror, which is designed for partial mirroring: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/debmirror.html I pulled the unstable dependencies by hand so as not to migrate the rest of the system to unstable.
