Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:05:56AM +1100, Brian May wrote: zsync looks suspiciously like it might have similar patent issues which killed the rproxy project. Then again I am no expert; Please tell me I am wrong... i'm not an expert either, but the zsync maintainer and i talked to a lot of

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-14 Thread Brian May
Goswin == Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin zsync uses the algorithm described in the rsync technical paper Goswin afaik. Does rsync have a patent issue? Do we realy care about some Goswin stupid countries patents? My understanding is that rsync doesn't have

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
Goswin == Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin zsync has the option of looking into gziped files and Goswin rsync them as if they would be ungziped (while still just Goswin downloading chunks of the gziped file). Its a bit more Goswin complex algorithm but works

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin == Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin zsync has the option of looking into gziped files and Goswin rsync them as if they would be ungziped (while still just Goswin downloading chunks of the gziped file). Its a bit more

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-12 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a mystery nobody ever will solve. It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. If Debian would provide zsync files a zsync module could

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Filippo Giunchedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a mystery nobody ever will solve. It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. If Debian

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Filippo Giunchedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a mystery nobody ever will solve. It is not wanted due

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a mystery nobody ever will solve. It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. That is simply not true. This statement is repeated all the time but nobody ever was able to show

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Otto Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a mystery nobody ever will solve. It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. That is simply not true. This statement is repeated all the

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otto Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: reply (that is what I get roughly) to the server would waste 75 hours on waiting for the initial three-way handshake for a connect. And another 50 hours for the round-robin sending the name of a file and

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otto Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: reply (that is what I get roughly) to the server would waste 75 hours on waiting for the initial three-way handshake for a connect. And another 50 hours for the

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure? Anyway DpartialMirror http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/; can. I guess mirrorer doesn't care for

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debmirror is purely a mirror tool. It will download the Meta files just like any other file. You can easily switch between mirror of equal contents but not create Packages files reflecting what is locally

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 30.01.2005 um 16:01 schrieb Thiemo Seufer: Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date packages.

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:27:11PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Am 30.01.2005 um 16:29 schrieb Marc Haber: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:54:16 +0100, Cajus Pollmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure? Anyway DpartialMirror http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/; can. A note of caution: | 2004-04-03 (wyo) Since Debian does not change its policy to add | adequate support for rsync'ing package mirrors, I don't actively | develop

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Cajus Pollmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am 30.01.2005 um 16:01 schrieb Thiemo Seufer: Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure? Anyway DpartialMirror http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/; can. A note of caution: | 2004-04-03 (wyo) Since Debian does not change its policy to add | adequate support for rsync'ing package

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Vincent Danjean
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Here's the result of some testing: debpool:is fine for new pools, but recreating the whole mirror with .deb and .udeb packages didn't work and I'm not the perl guy who's capable of fixing it. dak:too complicated for fire and forget mirrorer:

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Andreas Barth
* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050131 19:35]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: I guess mirrorer doesn't care for bandwith saving as DpartialMirror, correct me if I'm wrong. Currently it will always redownload the Packages/Sources files as gzip on every update to fix a bug

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure? Anyway DpartialMirror http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/; can. I guess mirrorer doesn't care for bandwith saving as DpartialMirror,

Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi, I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date packages. Tried to work around this with a simple script that merges my packages

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Aurelien Labrosse
Cajus Pollmeier a écrit : Hi, I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date packages. Tried to work around this with a simple

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date packages. Tried to work around this with a

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:44:57 +0100, Aurelien Labrosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you use 'dpkg-scanpackages' ? It rebuild Packages file for directories that contains..pakages. dpkg-scanpackages is deprecated. The low-level tool up to the task is apt-ftparchive. There is a number of

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:54:16 +0100, Cajus Pollmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Cajus Pollmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date packages. Tried to work

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Aurelien Labrosse
Cajus Pollmeier a écrit : Hi, I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date packages. Tried to work around this with a simple

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 30.01.2005 um 15:44 schrieb Aurelien Labrosse: Cajus Pollmeier a écrit : Hi, I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 30.01.2005 um 16:29 schrieb Marc Haber: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:54:16 +0100, Cajus Pollmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Nico Golde
Hello Cajus, * Cajus Pollmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-01-30 15:26]: I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date packages.

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Marc Haber [Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:31:15 +0100]: example debpool, but afaik the code managing the real Debian archive is not yet published. uh? cvs.d.o/dak has been there for a long time (not today, though ;-). there are even debian packages in NEW and [1]. [1] http://ganneff.de/dak

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Otto Wyss
Tried to work around this with a simple script that merges my packages into the local mirror and regenerates everything as needed. But sadly this doesn't seem to be perfect :-( The installer just doesn't want to get some of these packages, even if the md5's are correct. Switching from http to

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Cajus, * Cajus Pollmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-01-30 15:26]: I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Nico Golde
Hello Goswin, * Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-01-30 21:23]: Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Cajus Pollmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-01-30 15:26]: I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debmirror is purely a mirror tool. It will download the Meta files just like any other file. You can easily switch between mirror of equal contents but not create Packages files reflecting what is locally available. Sure? Anyway DpartialMirror