According to [1], the mirrors will be afected, so to create them it is said the some "exclude" tweaking must be done. Does anyone have the info -or the script- for what exactly is meant???? Mirroring Potato, getting ready for 2.2_r1
Joey Hess wrote: > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Debian Weekly News > http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/ > Debian Weekly News - October 25th, 2000 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian community. > > Debian has package pools! James Troup [1]revealed that "for the last > month and a half, I've been working on re-implementing dinstall and > switching to package pools." His message gives details about how > regular users, developers, and mirror admins will be affected (not > much, not much, and a great deal), the new layout of the Debian > archive, the database backend, the migration strategy ("an > as-of-yet-unwritten tool will migrated n Mb of data a day into the > pool from the legacy dists/ tree"), and the timeline before this is > put in place on the Debian archive (about two weeks). > > A beta version of the LSB-FHS test suite was ran against several major > distributions including Debian woody, which failed 17 tests out of > 243. A [2]chart shows that other distributions failed many more, while > SuSE only failed 5. The [3]detailed report of Debian's failures is > interesting reading. After [4]examining each failure, Wichert > Akkerman commented, "Not all of the test results are fair in my > opinion: some are real bugs in Debian, others are bugs in the > testsuite or the result of using an incomplete install." Some were > really bugs in the test suite, a few were things that should [5]not > be in the FHS, and 6 of the 9 remaining failures "can be fixed by > simply creating empty directories" Since FHS editor Daniel Quinlan and > the [6]author of the test suite are involved in the discussion, it > appears that all of these things will be eventually worked out. > > Why isn't Helix Gnome in Debian yet? For a while now there has been > duplication of effort, with Peter Teichman of Helix maintaining an apt > repository of Helix Gnome packages, and other Debian developers > maintaining regular Gnome in Debian. The only real reason for this > duplication of work is that Peter thinks that there might be > [7]copyright problems with some of the images in Helix Gnome, but > he's not sure, and for whatever reason this question has been > unresolved for some time now. Meanwhile, some folks [8]feel that "the > woody packages aren't BAD, but after using Helix, going back feels > like a serious downgrade", and others [9]have found that the Helix > packages "do not have the same quality when it comes to dependencies > and such". A subthread that tried to list the differences between the > two sets of packages found very little of note besides Helix's > branding. Whatever the differences, many people are using the Helix > debs, and bothering Debian developers with things like [10]this bug > report. This situation really needs to be resolved before it has a > chance to turn ugly. > > Debian's newest server is klecker.debian.org, which is now serving as > Debian's [11]main web server. Of course, it's named after Joel "Espy" > Klecker. Unfortunately, many home directories from the old > va.debian.org machine, which suffered a disk failure, have still not > been recovered and may be [12]gone for good. A new hostname, > people.debian.org has also been [13]set up, "which will exclusively be > used for individual web pages". Developers with personal Debian web > pages should begin using URLs based on the new domain name. > > New packages in Debian this week include the following, and [14]80 > more: > * [15]insight: Graphical debugger based on gdb > * [16]kannel: WAP and SMS gateway > * [17]scigraphica: Scientific graphics and data manipulation > * [18]webmin: Web based administration interface > > There were no security announcements this week. > > More and more Debian news sources are appearing. The latest arrival is > [19]Debian Planet, a web site providing Debian news in a weblog > format. In the meantime, [20]Kernel Cousin Debian is up to their 7th > issue, but still needs more contributors. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > References > 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0010/msg00007.html > 2. http://www.linuxbase.org/test/results/ > 3. http://www.linuxbase.org/test/results/Detailed_Debian_Woody.html > 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01440.html > 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01731.html > 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01490.html > 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01462.html > 8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01432.html > 9. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01438.html > 10. http://bugs.debian.org/75244 > 11. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01678.html > 12. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01701.html > 13. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01706.html > 14. http://auric.debian.org/~tausq/newpkgs-20001024.html > 15. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/insight.html > 16. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/kannel.html > 17. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/math/scigraphica.html > 18. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/webmin.html > 19. http://www.debianplanet.org/ > 20. http://kt.linuxcare.com/debian/latest.epl > > -- > see shy jo > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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