Re: Debian mirror / developer machine

2021-06-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 08:20:11PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > > If you are talking about a separate repository to the existing > > repository, that sounds like a Debian derivative. Personally I would > > encourage people to contribute to Debian rather than starting new

Re: Debian mirror / developer machine

2021-06-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 20:20:11 -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >No, I ain't talking about derivatives of Debian. I talking about a >mirror by itself, like all the other one around (ftp.xx.debian.org). What advantage would the world have with just another mirror? Is it in a unique plac

Re: Debian mirror / developer machine

2021-06-12 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, > If you are talking about a separate repository to the existing > repository, that sounds like a Debian derivative. Personally I would > encourage people to contribute to Debian rather than starting new > derivatives, except for experiments that will be re-integrated into > Debian. > > https

Re: Debian mirror / developer machine

2021-06-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 10:51 PM Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > I'd like to setup a Debian repository for the community If you are talking about a Debian mirror, there are some resources here: https://www.debian.org/mirror/ If you are talking about a separate repository to the existin

Re: Debian mirror

2021-05-17 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi ! On 2021-05-17 11:17 p.m., Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:09 PM Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> >> Hi ! >> Maybe this is not the good mailing list, if so, please let me know which >> one to go to. >> I am making a copy of the Debian repository. >> In the past I us

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Yasuhiro Araki dijo [Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:53:21AM +0900]: > Example of configuration lines are followings for unam.mx. > > $addr_db = { > "133.248.0.0/16" => { # => Request from 133.248.0.0/16 >#For example, DNS client's IP is >

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-19 Thread ARAKI Yasuhiro
Florian Weimer: * ARAKI Yasuhiro: Do you like cdn.debian.net's idea and implementation? Sorry if I sound like a broken record. What kind of software do you use? Is this just DNS-Balance plus a handful of scripts? Patially right. cdn.d.n is consisted by -(modifiled) DNS-balance to return DN

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* ARAKI Yasuhiro: > Do you like cdn.debian.net's idea and implementation? Sorry if I sound like a broken record. What kind of software do you use? Is this just DNS-Balance plus a handful of scripts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-18 Thread ARAKI Yasuhiro
Hi, On 2/17/08, Leo costela Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This CDN checks your hosts DNS query to retrive your national location. > - If your located country has Debian Mirror, return this mirror site IP address. > - If your located continent has Debian Mirror, return this mirror site I

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-18 Thread Yasuhiro Araki
Hi, On 2/19/08, Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, thanks for implementing a great idea :) This might be specially > useful for laptop users who often connect from different countries :) > The implementation also gives me some strange results: From my > workstation, in the 132.248. cl

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ARAKI Yasuhiro dijo [Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 07:53:06PM +0900]: > Hi all, > I am a member of debian mirror administration team in Japan. > > I announce I start cdn.debian.net. > > At 2008-Feb-05, we had started "cdn.debian.org" on global Debian Mirrors. > > This CDN checks your hosts DNS query to

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Feb 18, 2008 8:49 AM, Yasuhiro Araki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because cdn.d.n uses DNS query only. Then cdn.d.n can not detect architecture. > If possible, we can make CDN for each architecture (cf. cdn-i386.d.n). Already solved, see: -geomirror.debian.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Yasuhiro Araki
Hi, On 2/18/08, Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:35:08PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > > [No need to CC me, I'm subscribed. Keeping the other CCs since I don't > > know about their subscription status.] > > > > Hi > > > > ARAKI Yasuhiro wrote: > > > I ann

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > And it looks to me like the mirror should also be available via > "/debian". Oh-oh... I hadn't thought about this problem too. Well, I guess it's something that could be asked of the local mirror-admin. If they want their mirror to be a part of the automatic rotation they cou

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:35:08PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > > - If your located continent has Debian Mirror, return this mirror > > site IP address. > > I don't think this is a good logic for many situations. > For instance: Brazil is in South America, but it doesn't have good links >

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:35:08PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > [No need to CC me, I'm subscribed. Keeping the other CCs since I don't > know about their subscription status.] > > Hi > > ARAKI Yasuhiro wrote: > > I announce I start cdn.debian.net. > > You could have announced work on th

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
[No need to CC me, I'm subscribed. Keeping the other CCs since I don't know about their subscription status.] Hi ARAKI Yasuhiro wrote: > I announce I start cdn.debian.net. You could have announced work on this before, we could have joined forces! :-) But I wonder, how do you guys deal with pa

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread ARAKI Yasuhiro
Hi Vincent, Thank you for your testing. Do you like cdn.debian.net's idea and implementation? I would like you to notice your impression for cdn.debian.net to me! If possible, I hope you to update EU/Fr mirror list for cdn.debian.net in near future. (please see last part of this mail..) At Sun,

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du dimanche 17 février 2008, vers 13:46, Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > 61.115.118.67 is hanzubin.st.wakwak.ne.jp. I think the whole lists > you show there are Japanese servers. ftp.de.debian.org is 141.76.2.4 > which is the one I get while being

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du dimanche 17 février 2008, vers 13:58, William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> 61.115.118.67 is ftp.de.debian.org. I am located in France with an >> IP address of one of the largest ISP here. This ISP is hosting an >> official Debian mirror. > 6

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 13:08 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > 61.115.118.67 is ftp.de.debian.org. I am located in France with an > IP > address of one of the largest ISP here. This ISP is hosting an > official > Debian mirror. 61.115.118.67 is assigned to ASNIC, so there is no possible way i

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Michal Čihař
Dne Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:46:47 +0100 Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:08:39PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > > > I just try with host: > > cdn.debian.net is an alias for deb.cdn.araki.net. > > deb.cdn.araki.net has address 61.115.118.67 > > deb.cdn.araki.ne

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:08:39PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > I just try with host: > cdn.debian.net is an alias for deb.cdn.araki.net. > deb.cdn.araki.net has address 61.115.118.67 > deb.cdn.araki.net has address 133.5.166.3 > deb.cdn.araki.net has address 133.5.166.3 > deb.cdn.araki.net ha

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette fin de matinée radieuse du dimanche 17 février 2008, vers 11:53, ARAKI Yasuhiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Technology and Codes: > At first, CDN find requester IP's location by Max-mind DB. > Max-mind DB is same DB file for geoip-bin.deb package. > At 2nd, CDN checks nati

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression is similar. > .. >>> Should you be using the "-9" o

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-23 Thread Miles Bader
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the >>> archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression >>> is similar. .. >> Should you be using the "-9" option? The lzma help output says this: >> >> -

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the >> archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression >> is similar. > ... >> Lzma: 34306752 Bytes >> Compressing

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-21 Thread Miles Bader
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the > archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression > is similar. ... > Lzma: 34306752 Bytes > Compressing : 19410 mrvn 0 376m 370m R 97.2 36.9 1:5

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression is similar. I didn't measure compression times as I find them somewhat irelevant. A deb is compressed once but downloaded and decompressed a million times.

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-19 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Baumann wrote: > For the KDE flavour, this takes less than two minutes for downloading > the packages, but about 5 minutes for unpacking them. Measured how? Much of the work that dpkg is doing when it prints "Unpacking replacement foo ..." is not uncompressing. -- see shy jo signature.a

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
[ debian spamfilters do hate me, resend with different address. ] Russell Coker wrote: > Last time I checked the gzip source had no assembler optimisation for systems > other than i386. So if your 3.2GHz machine (which obviously would be a P4 at > least not an i386) is running the AMD64 instruc

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
Russell Coker wrote: > Last time I checked the gzip source had no assembler optimisation for systems > other than i386. So if your 3.2GHz machine (which obviously would be a P4 at > least not an i386) is running the AMD64 instruction set then you could > probably improve performance by running

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 19 January 2007 02:19, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For the KDE flavour, this takes less than two minutes for downloading >> the packages, but about 5 minutes for unpacking them. This is done on a >> reasonable fast i386 machine

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 19 January 2007 02:19, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the KDE flavour, this takes less than two minutes for downloading > the packages, but about 5 minutes for unpacking them. This is done on a > reasonable fast i386 machine (3.2ghz, 1gb ram, two 250gb barracudas in > rai

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I'm not sure if the smaller size that LZMA allows is worth it if it then > takes a lot longer to unpack files Unfortunately, that is already the case today. I have a local mirror via gigabit as I build multiple livecd images on a daily basis. For the KDE flavour, this take

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:25:38AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm not sure if the smaller size that LZMA allows is worth it if > > > it then takes a lot longer to unpack files, or if it becomes > > > impossible to do so due to memory requirements. > > > > I don't know on memory re

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > I'm not sure if the smaller size that LZMA allows is worth it if it then > > takes a lot longer to unpack files, or if it becomes impossible to do so > > due to memory requirements. > > i don't know on memory requirements. but i didn't notice any speed drawbacks > for my personal use. L

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread Gürkan Sengün
> Does LZMA have any drawbacks? According to Wikipedia[1,2] indicates that > it is slower than gzip, at perhaps around half the speed, but that it > may require a lot of memory to compress, but reasonably little to > decompress. According to my check last year and a few weeks or months: http://www

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2007-01-15 at 14:31 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:39:18PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > Does LZMA have any drawbacks? > > It is far less deployed as bzip2, so manually unpacking .deb packages on > some random GNU/Linux or Unix rescue system is more likely to f

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:39:18PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Does LZMA have any drawbacks? It is far less deployed as bzip2, so manually unpacking .deb packages on some random GNU/Linux or Unix rescue system is more likely to fail. Bzip2 is pretty ubiquitous these days, so comparing lzma num

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2007-01-15 at 09:34 +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > Since the day that dpkg officially supports lzma compressed packages, Gürkan > runs > a mirror of binary packages (i386, sid, main) which can be used easily. The > general save of downloading is about 30 %. The scripts how it is done and > t

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Johann Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Goswin! > >> Afaik it is as simple as: The Filename entries are relative to the URL >> you would put into the sources.list, as in: >> >> deb url path/ >> deb url dist + > > I see. But how does the mirror script know how the particular Packages > file

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-10 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi Goswin! > Afaik it is as simple as: The Filename entries are relative to the URL > you would put into the sources.list, as in: > > deb url path/ > deb url dist + I see. But how does the mirror script know how the particular Packages files are referenced from a (most probably remote) sources.l

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Johann Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > >> > I changed my script to check whether the "Filename:" field is with a >> > './' in front or not. Works for now. Probably another tweaking will be >> > necessary in the future, but currently it is ok. >> >> The ./ is a sideeffect of dpkg-scanpa

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-10 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! > > I changed my script to check whether the "Filename:" field is with a > > './' in front or not. Works for now. Probably another tweaking will be > > necessary in the future, but currently it is ok. > > The ./ is a sideeffect of dpkg-scanpackages. You should not rely on > that but just reim

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Johann Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > >> There are only 2 cases: >> >> Having 'dists///binary-/' in the path and not. >> >> You could have a Packages file with >> 'dists///binary-/' that is used as if it hadn't >> but that is rather unlikely. >> >> A good indication you are using a

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-08 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! > There are only 2 cases: > > Having 'dists///binary-/' in the path and not. > > You could have a Packages file with > 'dists///binary-/' that is used as if it hadn't > but that is rather unlikely. > > A good indication you are using a Packages file wrong is also if all > the packages it re

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:54:27PM +0200, Johann Glaser wrote: >> Is there a way to find out what the "base path" of a Packages file is >> supposed to be? > > No There are only 2 cases: Having 'dists///binary-/' in the path and not. You could

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:54:27PM +0200, Johann Glaser wrote: > Is there a way to find out what the "base path" of a Packages file is > supposed to be? No > > So all cases are explained by this or by the woody-proposed-updates > > thingy. > > When will the woody-proposed-updates Packages files

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! > The first few are not supposed to work with 'normal' sources.list > entries, but with 'deb > http:///debian/dists/sarge/main/update-kernel ./'. I see, thanks. Is there a way to find out what the "base path" of a Packages file is supposed to be? > So all cases are explained by this or by t

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:21:37PM +0200, Johann Glaser wrote: > Jeroen wrote: > > woody-proposed-updates got dropped because there is no more point > > release of woody, so the proposed-updates of it simply are no longer > > relevant. > > I see. Thus, I simply have to wait until woody-proposed-up

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Johann Glaser wrote: >Hi! > > >Ok, great. Lets have a look. This is the output of my script checking >our internal mirror. It searches all "Packages" files, filters the lines >starting with "Filename:" and checks if these files are present. For a >few weeks it complains about these missing files: >

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! > At least some of them are of woody-proposed-updates, which got dropped > from the database, and hence from pool. Indeed, the corresponding > Packages.gz files on the mirrors didn't get dropped yet, which is a > minor bug. > > woody-proposed-updates got dropped because there is no more poin

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:02:56PM +0200, Johann Glaser wrote: > Ok, great. Lets have a look. This is the output of my script checking > our internal mirror. It searches all "Packages" files, filters the lines > starting with "Filename:" and checks if these files are present. For a > few weeks it c

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! Am Montag, den 04.07.2005, 11:55 +0200 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: > Johann Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi! > > > > For a few weeks there are discrepancies between some "Packages" files > > and the files in the ./pool/ directory. Unfortunately the debian-mirrors > > list is dea

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Johann Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > For a few weeks there are discrepancies between some "Packages" files > and the files in the ./pool/ directory. Unfortunately the debian-mirrors > list is dead since the end of 2003. Therefore I try to ask this list, if > you know anything about

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-14 Thread Brian May
> "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Goswin> zsync uses the algorithm described in the rsync technical paper Goswin> afaik. Does rsync have a patent issue? Do we realy care about some Goswin> stupid countries patents? My understanding is that rsync doesn'

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:05:56AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > zsync looks suspiciously like it might have similar patent issues > which killed the rproxy project. > > Then again I am no expert; Please tell me I am wrong... i'm not an expert either, but the zsync maintainer and i talked to a lot of

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Goswin> zsync has the option of looking into gziped files and > Goswin> rsync them as if they would be ungziped (while still just > Goswin> downloading chunks of the gziped fil

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
> "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Goswin> zsync has the option of looking into gziped files and Goswin> rsync them as if they would be ungziped (while still just Goswin> downloading chunks of the gziped file). Its a bit more Goswin> complex algorith

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a > >> > mystery nobody ever will solve. > >> > >> It i

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a >> > mystery nobody ever will solve. >> >> It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. >>

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-12 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a > > mystery nobody ever will solve. > > It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. > > If Debian would provide zsync files a zsync module

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> reply (that is what I get roughly) to the server would waste 75 hours >> on waiting for the initial three-way handshake for a connect. And >> another 50 hours f

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > reply (that is what I get roughly) to the server would waste 75 hours > on waiting for the initial three-way handshake for a connect. And > another 50 hours for the round-robin sending the name of a file a

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a >> > mystery nobody ever will solve. >> >> It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. >> > That is simply not true. This statement is

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a > > mystery nobody ever will solve. > > It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. > That is simply not true. This statement is repeated all the time but nobody ever was able to

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: >> >> > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> > Sure? Anyway DpartialMirror "http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/"; >> >> > can. >> >> > >> > I

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > > > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > Sure? Anyway DpartialMirror "http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/"; > >> > can. > >> > > > I guess mirrorer doesn't care for bandwith saving a

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Andreas Barth
* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050131 19:35]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > > I guess mirrorer doesn't care for bandwith saving as DpartialMirror, > > correct me if I'm wrong. > Currently it will always redownload the Packages/Sources files as gzip > on every update to fix

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Vincent Danjean
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Here's the result of some testing: debpool:is fine for new pools, but recreating the whole mirror with .deb and .udeb packages didn't work and I'm not the perl guy who's capable of fixing it. dak:too complicated for fire and forget mirrorer:not

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Sure? Anyway DpartialMirror "http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/"; >> > can. >> > >> A note of caution: >> >> | 2004-04-03 (wyo) Since Debian does not change its policy to add >> | adequate support f

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am 30.01.2005 um 16:01 schrieb Thiemo Seufer: > >> Cajus Pollmeier wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release >>> files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I >>> currently need to switch

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure? Anyway DpartialMirror "http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/"; > > can. > > > A note of caution: > > | 2004-04-03 (wyo) Since Debian does not change its policy to add > | adequate support for rsync'ing package mirrors, I don't actively >

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:27:11PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Am 30.01.2005 um 16:29 schrieb Marc Haber: > > >On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:54:16 +0100, Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > >>I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release > >>files for a complete mirro

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 30.01.2005 um 16:01 schrieb Thiemo Seufer: Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date packages. Tr

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Debmirror is purely a mirror tool. It will download the Meta files >> just like any other file. >> >> You can easily switch between mirror of equal contents but not create >> Packages files reflecting wha

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debmirror is purely a mirror tool. It will download the Meta files > just like any other file. > > You can easily switch between mirror of equal contents but not create > Packages files reflecting what is locally available. > Sure? Anyway Dpartia

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Nico Golde
Hello Goswin, * Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-30 21:23]: > Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-30 15:26]: > >> I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release > >> files for a complete mirror. Due to some ins

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Cajus, > > * Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-30 15:26]: >> I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release >> files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I >> currently need to switch the mirrors during

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Otto Wyss
> Tried to work around this with a simple script that merges my > packages into the local mirror and regenerates everything as > needed. But sadly this doesn't seem to be perfect :-( The installer > just doesn't want to get some of these packages, even if the md5's > are correct. Switching from htt

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Marc Haber [Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:31:15 +0100]: > example debpool, but afaik the code managing the "real" Debian archive > is not yet published. uh? cvs.d.o/dak has been there for a long time (not today, though ;-). there are even debian packages in NEW and [1]. [1] http://ganneff.de/dak

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Nico Golde
Hello Cajus, * Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-30 15:26]: > I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release > files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I > currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to > get up to date packa

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 30.01.2005 um 16:29 schrieb Marc Haber: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:54:16 +0100, Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during ins

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 30.01.2005 um 15:44 schrieb Aurelien Labrosse: Cajus Pollmeier a écrit : Hi, I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date packa

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Aurelien Labrosse
Cajus Pollmeier a écrit : Hi, I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date packages. Tried to work around this with a simple scrip

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release > files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I > currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to > get up to date packages. > > Tried to w

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:54:16 +0100, Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release >files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I >currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to >get up to date pa

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:44:57 +0100, Aurelien Labrosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you use 'dpkg-scanpackages' ? It rebuild Packages file for >directories that contains..pakages. dpkg-scanpackages is deprecated. The low-level tool up to the task is apt-ftparchive. There is a number of hi

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release > files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I > currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to > get up to date packages. > > Tried to work around this with

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Aurelien Labrosse
Cajus Pollmeier a écrit : Hi, I'm looking for a script that regenerates Packages* and Release files for a complete mirror. Due to some installer development, I currently need to switch the mirrors during installation in order to get up to date packages. Tried to work around this with a simple scrip