Solved (a) (thanks Marc Mongeon), but I'm no nearer on (b) Paul
> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Sargent > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 12:09 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Debian User List' > Subject: RE: Mirroring the distributions > > 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 > >
