How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I want to have a local Debian mirror but to do this I have to go through our firewall. I'm looking at rsync and mirror. The documentation of the former doesn't mention proxies at all and that of the latter suggests defining the variables proxy=true, proxy_ftp_port= and

Re: How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to have a local Debian mirror but to do this I have to go through our firewall. I'm looking at rsync and mirror. The documentation of the former doesn't mention proxies at all and that of the latter suggests defining the variables proxy=true,

Re: How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Take a look at the apt-move package in potato... it should do just about what you want using rsync (you'll need to upgrade rsync if you're running slink). The current version (3.0-7) has a few problems, but a fixed version should be uploaded either tomorrow or Saturday (I'm the maintainer :-).

Re: How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Joe Block
Gary Hennigan wrote: Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to have a local Debian mirror but to do this I have to go through our firewall. I'm looking at rsync and mirror. The documentation of Are you planning on mirroring all the debian distributions (slink, potato, sid) for