On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:21:55AM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > Now you have me interested. Do you already have a script to mirror > only stable and unstable with rsync? I think I would try only > mirroring stable with such a script, but I thought it would take > having a program parse things like the Packages files for each release > and main/contrib/non-free sub folder and <arch> that you were after.
I'm currently testing a script that does exactly this. It builds a list of files needed from the Packages and/or Sources files for the desired release and arch. It then fetches only those files from the public archive. Seems to be working fairly well at the moment. > feeding the list of files to rsync seemed a little crazy. I don't know > if rsync has a max for command line input, or if it would be a bad > idea to connect to rsync each file or sub batch. I have read that > rsync can use a lot of memory because it keeps a list of all the files > in memory until it is done. rsync supports an option for including from a file "--include-from" > If I'm mirroring stable, doesn't it only change when a revision is > done, so I don't really need to mirror it that often? Correct. However with an rsync mirror script the hit is negligible since the Packages\Sources file should not have changed. > Do you use the packages on the mirror for anything other than as a > local http/ftp target for apt-get? If not, what reasons do you have > for mirroring over using something like apt-cacher? Depends on what your after. Personally, I perfer the response from a local mirror when installing new packages and it gives me the option of building ISOs via Jigdo. However, after the initial retrieval, apt-cacher would do the same. So, it's really a matter of preference. Many see a local mirror as a waste of bandwidth and I can see their reasoning. -- Jamin W. Collins Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. --Aldous Huxley, "Proper Studies", 1927 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
