Given all the symbolic links to pool directories on the FTP servers, is there any way to mirror just the section under /debian/dists/potato?
Using mirror, if I don't flatten/suppress/whatever the symbolic links, it seems I'd have to mirror the whole pool in order to have all the files to which the symbolic links user /debian/dists/potato refer. I don't have space for that. If I do flatten symbolic links, then I get a lot of duplicates .deb files because I've flattened the links from /debian/dists/potato/.../binary-i386 to /debian/dists/potato/.../binary-all. I don't really have the space for that. If I mirror just the binary-i386 directories (with links flattened), I'd have enough space, but the Packages file refers to the binary-all directories. I suppose I could create a binary-all symbolic link to each binary-i386 directory, but I'm looking for a better solution. Does rsync give better control over link expansion than mirror? (E.g., for any link under /debian/dists/potato to a file not under /debian/dists/potato, expand the link (as a file under /debian/dists/potato); but for links within the subtree rooted at /debian/dists/potato, preserve them.) Does some form of apt support permanently mirroring a distribution? (Permanently as opposed to whichever cache it is that apt asks if you want to purge?) (I want to maintain a local mirror so that when I want to install something, it's already downloaded and I can install it quickly.) Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )
