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 :-). Information on proxies will be included in the upcoming version's README.Debian file.
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:21:46PM +0000, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > 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=xxxx and > proxy_gateway=gateway_name. However I've been unable to get mirror > through the firewall here. > > The environment variable ftp_proxy and http_proxy work with other > packages like lynx and apt but neither rsync or mirror seem to care > about them.
