My biggest problem is that I'm behind a paranoid firewall which blocks
access to the rsync port :-(
I followed up on the www.debian.org/mirror/ site that I was given by Eric
Farris. That suggests using mirror to do the job, but that's been giving me
problems.
a) It complains about my RE for the exclude_patt. Hopefully it's opbious
what I'm trying to do, but can anybody explain why I get
String found where operator expected at (eval 10) line 1, near
"*\''"
(Missing Operator before ''?)
b) I get Failure at end of remote_directory () becuase: remote server has
gone away. I think the file list is so long that something times out before
it's fuly transfered.
Anybody Help?
Paul
P.S. Here is my mirror/package file. I'm trying to filter out all alpha,
m68k, sparc, ppc, and old distributions. All I want to mirror is x86, stable
and unstable.
package=debian
comment=Debain Archive
site=ftp.uk.debian.org
remote_dir=/debian/dists/
local_dir=/home/pauls/debian/dists
mode_copy=true
make_bad_symlinks=true
exclude_patt='.*alpha.deb|.*m68k.deb|.*powerpc.deb|.*sparc.deb|.*\/bo.*|.*\/
sid.*'
max_delete_files=50%
max_delete_dirs=50%
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Bartosch
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 10:34 PM
> To: Paul Sargent
> Subject: Re: Mirroring the distributions
>
>
> have a look at "rsync", it uses a checksum-algorithm to transport only
> those
> parts of a file, which are needed
>
>
