On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:10:37AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:30:30PM -0700, Pete Ashdown wrote: > > Has anyone know of a method for mirroring through apt? I'm aware of > > apt-move, but I can't seem to get it to do a complete mirror that grabs > > everything and not just the distribution that I have in the sources.list. > > It also creates empty directories for all the architectures, regardless of > > whether they are actually used or not. > > have you looked at the debmirror package? it does this pretty well, > and has examples at the bottom of the manpage. however, i think > it only does rsync and ftp. wonder why it doesn't do http... Well http is not that easy to parse and handle when you try to mirror a whole dir recursiv especially when directory index is forbidden.
If you intend to use debmirror I suggest to use it with debmirror-wrapper http://people.debian.org/~absurd/debmirror-wrapper Another solution might be apt-proxy but IIRC it uses rsync as backend. If you want to mirror a apt rep wich is only avaible via http I suggest to parse the packages file. I've written a short hack for Adrian Bunks backports. Maybe this gives you the idea how to change it for your special case. http://hoaxter.telelev.net/debian/bunk-mirror.sh Maybe it would be possible to mirror with apt-get --print-uris install <pattern wich maches the whole archive you want> but aehm I don't think this is a good choice. HTH Sven -- Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, and modestly. - Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
