>>>>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:25:33 +0200, Andreas Heinlein <aheinl...@gmx.com> >>>>> said:
> does anyone know of a faster way to get conflicting packages in a > partial mirror created with fai-mirror, than using MAXPACKAGES=1? > I need to include both 'grub-pc' and 'grub-efi-amd64' in the mirror. > Downloading everything with MAXPACKAGES=10000 downloads ca. 1500 > packages in one swoop in about 20 minutes, but leaves out grub-efi-amd64 > because of the conflict. Downloading with MAXPACKAGES=1 should allow > this, but takes ages (I stopped after 4 hours). I'm wondering why it takes so long. Even with a slow connection, I would not expect that big difference. I have a local mirror, to which I have a gbit connection. Creating a mirror with MAXPACKAGES=1 takes about 2 minutes when putting the mirror into a a ramdisk (/tmp is my favorite target ;-). When using max=9999 it only takes 30 seconds. On this very fast computer it only takes 4 times longer. I you have a slow computer or slow file system it's a good idea to created the mirror onto a ramdisk. This also speeds up every single apt-get/aptitude call. I suggest you use -v with fai-mirror and check if there's a certain part, where the download is slow. -- regards Thomas