Andre Majorel wrote: > One of the releases I'm debmirror-ing (Lenny) has disappeared > from the mirror I'm mirroring off. Before I remove that release > from the debmirror command line, I'd like to save those packages > somewhere.
I am in exactly the same situation. I have some special cases that need special handling. A little disk space now speeds things up later. > First thought is to generate a list of file names from > dists/lenny/*/binary-i386/Packages.gz and pipe that into cpio > -pdl /somewhere/else but maybe there's an easier way ? In my case I simply set up a separate mirror for Lenny and pointed the upstream source to my local mirror. Then ran the mirror script to pull the packages from the existing local mirror into the new lenny mirror. The packages transfer very quickly since it is all local copying. Then after that mirror was done then I updated the lenny,squeeze mirror to be squeeze only which automatically freed up the disk space consumed by the lenny packages. This temporarily requires twice the amount of space of the packages from Lenny. But it is only temporary. This worked out well since the packages for lenny (oldstable) are in a usuable form in a mirrored repository location. Plus it uses exactly the same mirror tools as I was already using. If you were inclined then after transfering your packages locally you could point to archive.debian.org afterward and have the mirror script verify that it is up to date. But there is no need for any type of regular updates since there are no more updates now or in the future for Lenny now that it has been archived. Bob
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
