On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 04:28:55AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:30:35AM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > 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. > > but i think you miss something... with debmirror, it doesn't ever do a > recursive listing. it gets the Packages/Sources/Release files, and then > gets stuff as it should be gotten according to that. My conern about http was meant in general. I know that it's easier to use the packages list instead of collecting the package URIs by hand. I've used it in my hack to mirror Adrians packages.
> i just hacked in http into the debmirror script, and it seems to (almost) > work. wow, the things i do with my time... i'll see about cleaning it > up and submitting a patch :) Colin mentioned a relatet patch just a few minutes ago: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=154364 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]
