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 every architecture, eg., alpha, sparc, i386, etc.? If > so then, once you figure out your ftp proxy, it'll work fine. If, on > the other hand, you're going to try and mirror only one distribution, > and only one architecture within that distribution your going to be in > for a wild ride trying to do it with ftp! > > Most of the Debian mirrors use the proftpd server and it refuses to > flatten symlinks. This is a problem, for example, if you want the > potato distribution, because there are quite a few packages in potato > that are merely symlinks to packages in slink. If you were just doing > slink (don't know about sid) this wouldn't be a problem, but for > potato it's a headache. > > Anyway, I gave up on the ftp solution and just started using > w3mir. Other than a small bug that causes files with a "+" in their > names to always be deleted it works fine and there aren't symlinks, at > least visible ones, on the http mirrors, so it's easy to get all the > files needed for a particular architecture in a particular > distribution. It also has handled our http proxy without a hitch. A > simple command-line argument was all that was needed. > > I think it's a bit more inefficient than an ftp mirror, but for > partial mirrors it's about the only solution. I'm using wget to maintain a local mirror for my servers to update off and do local installs for students & faculty. --cut here-- #!/bin/sh cd /where/you/want/the/mirror echo > debian.log /usr/bin/wget --mirror -nH -c --cut-dirs=1 -b -o debian.log --dot-style=binary --tries=10 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/ ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-all/ ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/ ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-all/ ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/ ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/binary-all/ --cut here-- All the ftp urls go on the same line as wget if your mailer wrapped them to new lines. You can set your proxy in /etc/wgetrc jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.
