Re: pool

2000-12-05 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > If you use rsync to mirror, you don't have to mirror pool/ if you use the > --copy-unsafe-links option. At least, that's possible as long as symlinks in > the "regular" tree exist (which I suppose will continue to be the case for > potato). In the future,

debian-cd.deb for 2.2r2 ?

2000-12-05 Thread Igor Mozetic
In http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ I read: Building CD images People wishing to create CD images for 2.2r2 will need to use the CVS version of 'debian-cd' and not the version currently installed in potato. Is there any deb around which can be used to create 2.2r2 images without investi

Debian Boot CVS: 93sam

2000-12-05 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-cd Changes by: 93sam 00/12/05 12:53:24 Modified files: tools : add_dirs scanpackages Added files: . : update-cd Log message: Initial checkin of update-cd, simple tool to create r0 -> r* CDs. Mi

New update-cd script

2000-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
I've written a new script to go with debian-cd, called update-cd. It's a (semi-)hacky way of producing 2.2r0 -> 2.2rx CDs that should work with apt. I'm about to check v0.1 into CVS, along with a couple of small changes needed in the rest of debian-cd to accommodate it. Several of the people I've

Re: pool

2000-12-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Well, I am considering the possibility of using my work internet access to create a mirror, and then hooking my machine to the mirror in disk to transfer it to my potato system. My question is: What's the best way of mirroring from a windows machine, may be rsync provided in the pseudo-image kit f

Re: [comments v2] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r2 Released

2000-12-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:34:05AM +0100, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > pool/non-US/main/f/fsh/ is drw-rw-r--. Checked on two separate rsync-mirroring > mirrors. Interestingly, > http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/pool/non-US/main/f/fsh/ > works just fine. O

Re: pool

2000-12-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:08:58AM +, Philip Charles wrote: > Could someone tell me what the "pool" directory is about? Is it necessary > to mirror it? I see that non-US has established it and it is obviously > going to take a lot of disk space. It won't take any more disk space than mirror

Re: [comments v2] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r2 Released

2000-12-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:34:05AM +0100, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:14:11PM +0100, Nils Lohner wrote: > > > [ any more comments? IMO its ready to go out when the release is made. > > > --nils ] > > Which should be finished now.

Re: pool

2000-12-05 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Philip Charles wrote: > Could someone tell me what the "pool" directory is about? Is it necessary > to mirror it? I see that non-US has established it and it is obviously > going to take a lot of disk space. If you use rsync to mirror, you don't have to mirror pool/ if you

Re: please reply soon

2000-12-05 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Philip Charles wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Ryan Hurst wrote: > > > hello, > > i was on your site the other day and i have been lookin all over the > internet to find a program that i can use to burn dvd's if it is even > possible? If so and this is the program i need pl

Re: cdimage of debian2.2r2

2000-12-05 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, noxis/mawi^dreamweb wrote: > I am looking for cdimages of Debian 2.2 rev 2. Do you plan to relase > those images? Yes. Keep checking http://cdimage.debian.org/ for the latest info. Regards, Anne Bezemer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: out-of-date package list?

2000-12-05 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Russell L. Harris wrote: [...] > errors. Checking the download log against the directory of the package > server, it appears that the package list is out of date. Nope, the CD images are out of date and not matching the FTP sites any more. Keep checking http://cdimage.deb

Re: [comments v2] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r2 Released

2000-12-05 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:14:11PM +0100, Nils Lohner wrote: > > [ any more comments? IMO its ready to go out when the release is made. > > --nils ] > > Which should be finished now. If the CD people want to start seeing if > anything's broken, or if

out-of-date package list?

2000-12-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
Greetings. This is just a quick note to point out what may or may not be a problem. I just used the pseudo-image kit to download an i386 Potato CD image. Per instructions in the README file in the kit, I downloaded the package list from http://www.uk.debian.org/debian-cd/cd-

pool

2000-12-05 Thread Philip Charles
Could someone tell me what the "pool" directory is about? Is it necessary to mirror it? I see that non-US has established it and it is obviously going to take a lot of disk space. Thanks, Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sel