On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:06:51PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > we are using a local debian mirror for several reasons. we let rsync > run on one of the official servers once a week over the weekend, and > still have security.debian.org in the sources.list files on all > workstations. however, due to the nature of rsync, whenever packages > on the server are updated, they are first removed locally (i have to > use the --delete option since we only have a 40Gb drive for the > mirror), before everything is rsync'd. usually this works quite well, > but there are times when the connection is so bad that on monday > morning not all packages have been rsync'd so that Packages.gz says > they are there, but they aren't quite yet. > > apt-proxy is not an option, apt-move doesn't help either since it > doesn't ensure all packages to be there - and since we do a lot of > testing with random packages, we need to have access to all packages > at all times. > > any ideas on how to improve this? >
Perhaps http would be a more dependable protocol. I have found, as I am sure others have, that http is better at cutting through net congestion than ftp, for the purpose of fetching debs from busy servers. I dont have experience to back it up, but I would speculate that http would work better than rsync too. You could use wget. I think there are switches that you could use to avoid fetching package files that you already have. It should be fairly easy to come up with a script to remove old packages. Mike script to remove old packages.
