Package: debmirror
Version: 1:2.17
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Debmirror can download via ftp://, http://, https:// or rsync://, but
not via file://. That is, a command like this does not work:
debmirror --dist=stable --arch=amd64 --method=file\
--root=$SOURCE_DIRECTORY --no-check-gpg $TARGET_DIRECTORY
Why do you care that this does not work? Answer: testing. It can be
more convenient for users, and maybe even more convenient for
developers, to test debmirror's behavior on localhost than over
the network.
Besides, most or all programs that support multiple network protocols
should probably support a file:// method, for approximately the same
reason your network should support a localhost and your system should
support a /dev/null. Even if the file:// method is not often used, it
should remain available as a null method, so to speak. (I believe that
pbuilder has recently added a file:// method, for instance.)
Please find attached a suggested patch to implement the change. I have
successfully tested the patched binary by using it download jessie 8.0
stable, with source and binary-amd64, about 100 GiB, from one hard-drive
partition of my laptop to another.
Observe that though rsync is incidentally used in the normal debmirror
manner, no rsync *daemon* is required to use the file:// method as the
patch implements it.
The severity is normal rather than wishlist because applying this patch
may make it easier to fix some of debmirror's other, outstanding bugs of
normal severity.
At the time this bug is reported, debmirror has been orphaned (#768532)
six months. Since no one else has maintained this package for the past
six months, since I have now spent the time to learn a little about how
debmirror internally works, and since I have used debmirror for years
and prefer its bugs to be fixed, I had probably better adopt the
package. I will file ITA after this report.
diff -turN debmirror-2.17/debmirror debmirror-2.17.1/debmirror
--- debmirror-2.17/debmirror 2014-07-02 20:54:08.0 +
+++ debmirror-2.17.1/debmirror 2015-06-03 22:41:55.517583458 +
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@
=item B<--method>=I
Specify the method to download files. Currently, supported methods are
-B, B, B, and B.
+B, B, B, and B. The B method is
+experimentally supported.
=item B<--passive>
@@ -766,7 +767,7 @@
}
# Backwards compatibility: remote root dir no longer needs prefix
-$remoteroot =~ s%^[:/]%%;
+$remoteroot =~ s%^[:/]%% unless downloads_via_file();
# Post-process arrays. Allow commas to separate values the user entered.
# If the user entered nothing, provide defaults.
@@ -802,7 +803,7 @@
# Display configuration.
$|=1 if $debug;
if ($passwd eq "anonymous@") {
- if ($download_method eq "http") {
+ if (downloads_via_http()) {
say("Mirroring to $mirrordir from $download_method://$host/$remoteroot/");
} else {
say("Mirroring to $mirrordir from $download_method://$user\@$host/$remoteroot/");
@@ -823,7 +824,7 @@
say("Passive mode on.") if $passive;
say("Proxy: $proxy") if $proxy;
say("Download at most $max_batch files.") if ($max_batch > 0);
-say("Download at most $rsync_batch files per rsync call.") if ($download_method eq "rsync");
+say("Download at most $rsync_batch files per rsync call.") if (downloads_via_rsync());
if ($pre_cleanup) {
say("Will clean up before mirroring.");
} elsif ($post_cleanup) {
@@ -878,7 +879,7 @@
sub init_connection {
$_ = $download_method;
- /^http$/ && do {
+ downloads_via_http() && do {
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 1);
$ua->timeout($timeout);
$ua->proxy('http', $ENV{http_proxy}) if $ENV{http_proxy};
@@ -887,7 +888,7 @@
return;
};
- /^https$/ && do {
+ downloads_via_https() && do {
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 1, ssl_opts => {
verify_hostname => ! $disable_ssl_verification });
$ua->timeout($timeout);
@@ -898,7 +899,7 @@
};
- /^ftp$/ && do {
+ downloads_via_ftp() && do {
if ($proxy || $ENV{ftp_proxy}) {
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->timeout($timeout);
@@ -915,7 +916,15 @@
return;
};
- /^rsync$/ && do {
+ downloads_via_file() && do {
+$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
+$ua->timeout($timeout);
+$ua->show_progress($progress);
+$host='localhost';
+return;
+ };
+
+ downloads_via_rsync() && do {
return;
};
@@ -926,13 +935,18 @@
# determine remote root for rsync transfers
my $rsyncremote;
if (length $remoteroot) {
-$rsyncremote = "$host\:\:$remoteroot/";
-if ($user ne 'anonymous') {
-$rsyncremote = "$user\@$rsyncremote";
+if (downloads_via_file()) {
+$rsyncremote = "$remoteroot/";
+}
+else {
+$rsyncremote = "$host\:\:$remoteroot/";
+if ($user ne 'anonymous') {
+$rsyncremote = "$user\@$rsyncremote";
+}
}
}
else {
-if ($download_method
