Re: Debmirror

2021-07-29 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, >> Yes, just copy the *Release* file. > > The "*"s were wildcards, not emphasis. > That's *confusing* >> But doing things like trained monkey doesn't go nowhere. >> [ … ] First thing is understanding why, so that the >> choice I'll make … > > Sure. It generally behoves one to understand an

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Jul 2021 at 04:12:47 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-07-29 12:58 a.m., David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 25 Jul 2021 at 09:37:14 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > > wrote: > >>> On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, 04:41 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >>> On

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 06:11:25AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: On 2021-07-27 10:45 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: Just a Linux advice/s I read 10years ago + -. Time goes by and things change. Advice from 10 years ago can even be bad when applied today. This messages is threaded

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-29 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi David, On 2021-07-29 12:58 a.m., David Wright wrote: > On Sun 25 Jul 2021 at 09:37:14 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >>> On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, 04:41 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >>> On 2021-07-24 9:33 p.m., David Wright wrote: >>> > On Sat 24 Jul 2021 at 19:52:

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Sun 25 Jul 2021 at 09:37:14 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, 04:41 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > On 2021-07-24 9:33 p.m., David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 24 Jul 2021 at 19:52:36 (-0400), Polyna-Maude > > Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-28 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-27 10:45 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Just a Linux advice/s I read 10years ago + -. Time goes by and things change. Advice from 10 years ago can even be bad when applied today. I used to create multiple partitions that were needed years ago. But by doing so today, I don't gain much

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-25 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, >>> >>> --getcontents ? >>> >> Giving this one a try >> >> > Gave this one a try and it worked. > Next step... > I'm setting up a Debian mirror (don't know if it will be very useful > because I already have one nearby (iweb.ca)... > > But as I'm only carrying Buster and Bullseye (possibly

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-25 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-24 9:41 p.m., Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-07-24 9:33 p.m., David Wright wrote: >> On Sat 24 Jul 2021 at 19:52:36 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside >> wrote: >>> Here are the message I get after my debmirror when I do apt-get update >>> >>> Err:3

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 09:37:14AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-07-25 3:42 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > Polyna. > > I always have heard it's better to put all documents, files, photos etc > > in a usb or external harddisk. And do a clean reinstall of the update

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-25 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-25 3:42 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Polyna. > I always have heard it's better to put all documents, files, photos etc > in a usb or external harddisk. And do a clean reinstall of the updated > distro. Can you explain a bit further... ? If I follow what I read in your message... Yo

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-24 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-24 9:33 p.m., David Wright wrote: > On Sat 24 Jul 2021 at 19:52:36 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >> Here are the message I get after my debmirror when I do apt-get update >> >> Err:31 file:/mnt/mirror/debian buster-updates/main amd64 Contents (deb) >> File not fo

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-24 Thread David Wright
On Sat 24 Jul 2021 at 19:52:36 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Here are the message I get after my debmirror when I do apt-get update > > Err:31 file:/mnt/mirror/debian buster-updates/main amd64 Contents (deb) > File not found - > /mnt/mirror/debian/dists/buster-updates/main/Co

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-11 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, >> Approx is an HTTP-based Debian archive server.  It fetches packages >> from remote repositories on demand, and caches them for local use. >> >> Approx saves time and network bandwidth if you need to install or >> upgrade Debian software for a number of machines on a local network.  >> Each

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-11 Thread C M Reinehr
On 6/5/21 1:34 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Hi ! I've did a mirror with debmirror. All seem good when I look at the folders and files. But when I do apt-update it complains about contents-amd64 file missing !? Got some ideas? I don't recall that you've ever mentioned why you want

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-10 Thread Francisco M Neto
On 6/10/21 4:39 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > My advice to you would be the same as the advice I gave to Polyna: ftpsync > "just works" for most things and relies only on rsync. > > It's what I and several others use - it's Debian native and is widely > understood and used. Oh, I'm not l

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 01:34:56PM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > Hello again, > > On 6/5/21 4:33 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > I used to make my own mirror using aptly but as it need to sign with a > > new key all the mirror it does, it does take lot of time and that's > > exce

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-10 Thread Francisco M Neto
Hello again, On 6/5/21 4:33 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > I used to make my own mirror using aptly but as it need to sign with a > new key all the mirror it does, it does take lot of time and that's > excessive for the full debian repository with backports and source. Eh, I

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-10 Thread Francisco M Neto
Hello! On 6/5/21 4:27 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >>> I've did a mirror with debmirror. >>> All seem good when I look at the folders and files. >>> But when I do apt-update it complains about contents-amd64 file missing !? >>> >>> Got some ideas? >> > I already know this one. > But

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 02:34:12AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi ! > I've did a mirror with debmirror. > All seem good when I look at the folders and files. > But when I do apt-update it complains about contents-amd64 file missing !? > > Got some ideas? > -- > Polyna-Maude R.

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-05 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 03:27:52AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-06-05 3:24 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > At the top level of each release there should be one file Contents- [...] > I already know this one. > But there seem to be a problem with debmi

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-05 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-05 3:24 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 02:34:12AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> Hi ! >> I've did a mirror with debmirror. >> All seem good when I look at the folders and files. >> But when I do apt-update it complains about contents-amd

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-05 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-05 3:24 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 02:34:12AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> Hi ! >> I've did a mirror with debmirror. >> All seem good when I look at the folders and files. >> But when I do apt-update it complains about contents-amd

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-05 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 02:34:12AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi ! > I've did a mirror with debmirror. > All seem good when I look at the folders and files. > But when I do apt-update it complains about contents-amd64 file missing !? > > Got some ideas? At the top level of ea

Re: Debmirror

2021-05-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi ! Answer follow. On 2021-05-18 12:17 p.m., Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/18/21, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >> Hi ! >> I can't seem to get the debian security updates repository using debmirror. >> It did work for me to get the standard repository, with both amd64 and >> i386 plus

Re: Debmirror

2021-05-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/18/21, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi ! > I can't seem to get the debian security updates repository using debmirror. > It did work for me to get the standard repository, with both amd64 and > i386 plus the sources. > But I can't do it with security.debian.org > It just wait for

Re: Debmirror error - balks when "?" in URL

2018-06-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 10:21:02AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 16/06/18 05:01, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > Note that http also works for that site, so the line below is equally good: > > http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free > >

Re: Debmirror error - balks when "?" in URL

2018-06-15 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 16/06/18 05:01, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: Note that http also works for that site, so the line below is equally good: http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free was the URL I used for years when I used iiNet in Perth. It is

Re: Debmirror - 3rd Party Repo Error (Kali)

2018-01-24 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-23, Derek Murphy wrote: > > Package: debmirror > Version: 1:2.16+deb8u1 > > When I run debmirror to sync the Kali repo, I get several errors regarding > uninitialized value $size. I've included a copy of the script that I run to > sync below. You will also notice a blank -r, this is due

Re: debmirror, GPG, Stretch

2017-05-15 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2017-05-11 21:44 +0200, Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 03:21:17PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > > This is where a list of key IDs used for ftp.debian.org would > > come in handy. But if it exists, it's not easy to find. > > > > No doubt keys can be found by looking into the late

Re: debmirror, GPG, Stretch

2017-05-11 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 03:21:17PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > This is where a list of key IDs used for ftp.debian.org would > come in handy. But if it exists, it's not easy to find. > > No doubt keys can be found by looking into the latest release of > debian-archive-keyring or poking strings i

Re: debmirror hangs

2015-12-16 Thread sp113438
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:25:41 -0700 Joshua wrote: > --slow-cpu Thanks! It did the trick, I too can update my local mirror again.

Re: debmirror hangs

2015-12-15 Thread Joshua
I too have had this problem, and while I don't know exactly what's failing on the script, I know it has something to do with converting the Index files to gzip and xz. An easy fix (at the expense of some additional bandwidth) is to pass in --slow-cpu, which will make it download all versions of

Re: debmirror not installing libdigest-sha-perl, even though it is a dependency

2014-04-14 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Zenaan Harkness writes: > On 4/9/14, Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> Zenaan Harkness writes: >>> Any idea why the following: >>> >>> $ dpkg -s debmirror|grep Status >>> Status: install ok installed >>> >>> $ apt-cache show debmirror|grep Depends >>> Depends: perl (>= 5.10), libnet-perl, libdigest-md5-

Re: debmirror not installing libdigest-sha-perl, even though it is a dependency

2014-04-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 apr 14, 21:24:38, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 4/9/14, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > Zenaan Harkness writes: > >> Any idea why the following: > >> > >> $ dpkg -s debmirror|grep Status > >> Status: install ok installed > >> > >> $ apt-cache show debmirror|grep Depends > >> Depends: perl (>= 5

Re: debmirror balks on armhf, when adding armhf to i386,amd64 archive pool

2014-04-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/11/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 4/11/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 12/5/12, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Zenaan Harkness wrote: When I try to add armhf to my local debmirror archive, I get these sorts of errors: dists/wheezy/non-free/binary-armhf/Packages.diff/2012-08-12-

Re: debmirror balks on armhf, when adding armhf to i386,amd64 archive pool

2014-04-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/11/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 12/5/12, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Zenaan Harkness wrote: >>> When I try to add armhf to my local debmirror archive, I get these >>> sorts of errors: >>> >>> dists/wheezy/non-free/binary-armhf/Packages.diff/2012-08-12-0215.28.gz >>> failed sha1sum check, removin

Re: debmirror balks on armhf, when adding armhf to i386,amd64 archive pool

2014-04-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I know this is a little old, but it is the same thread, I finally got around to trying my next step, see below: On 12/5/12, Bob Proulx wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> When I try to add armhf to my local debmirror archive, I get these >> sorts of errors: >> >> dists/wheezy/non-free/binary-armhf

Re: debmirror not installing libdigest-sha-perl, even though it is a dependency

2014-04-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/9/14, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Zenaan Harkness writes: >> Any idea why the following: >> >> $ dpkg -s debmirror|grep Status >> Status: install ok installed >> >> $ apt-cache show debmirror|grep Depends >> Depends: perl (>= 5.10), libnet-perl, libdigest-md5-perl, >> libdigest-sha-perl, liblock

Re: debmirror not installing libdigest-sha-perl, even though it is a dependency

2014-04-09 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Zenaan Harkness writes: > Any idea why the following: > > $ dpkg -s debmirror|grep Status > Status: install ok installed > > $ apt-cache show debmirror|grep Depends > Depends: perl (>= 5.10), libnet-perl, libdigest-md5-perl, > libdigest-sha-perl, liblockfile-simple-perl, rsync, bzip2, libwww-perl

Re: debmirror balks on armhf, when adding armhf to i386,amd64 archive pool

2012-12-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Zenaan Harkness wrote: > When I try to add armhf to my local debmirror archive, I get these > sorts of errors: > > dists/wheezy/non-free/binary-armhf/Packages.diff/2012-08-12-0215.28.gz > failed sha1sum check, removing I have at times seen those errors from broken mirrors. Try a different mirror

Re: debmirror balks on armhf, when adding armhf to i386,amd64 archive pool

2012-12-04 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I guess I should find a more specific list for debmirror questions... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caosgnssjxqjuftixztmopwamqzdo861c6mypgy5dnpuv+dd

Re: debmirror failing to download sources (*.orig.*)

2012-11-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 11/18/12, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 08:20:57PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Please check: > /etc/debmirror.conf > ~/.debmirror.conf Neither exist. Also, dpkg -L debmirror only shows /usr/bin/debmirror and various docs in /usr/share, so it appears /etc/de

Re: debmirror failing to download sources (*.orig.*)

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 08:20:57PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Gday, here's my debmirror cmd: > > /usr/bin/debmirror --source --i18n --exclude='/Translation-.*\.bz2$' > --include/Translation-(en).*\.bz2$' --exclude-deb-section=games > --exclude-deb-section=debug --exclude-deb-section=news

Re: debmirror failing to download sources (*.orig.*)

2012-11-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
PS, running wheezy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caosgnss3ty9iaht4+eg5kftxoqyjwhbfzn38b1gyeq+yr4q...@mail.gmail.com

Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Andre Majorel wrote: > > Sneaky. I'll look if I can hack debmirror to avoid the copy. > > Thanks. > > hardlinks? (assuming it's the same filesystem) On my system with local disks I think it took less than an hour to copy the Lenny 48G of source and binaries for i386 and am

Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 12 apr 12, 22:31:16, Andre Majorel wrote: > > Sneaky. I'll look if I can hack debmirror to avoid the copy. > Thanks. hardlinks? (assuming it's the same filesystem) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listi

Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-12 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2012-04-10 20:48 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > 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 qui

Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-10 Thread Bob Proulx
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

Solved: Re: debmirror starts works stops on error

2011-08-31 Thread Greg Madden
To be accurate, I haven't figured out specifically the issue. I switched from method: ftp to http in debmirror. Possibilities are firewall, ftp configuration. On Tuesday 23 August 2011 03:27:42 pm Greg Madden wrote: > I have a partial local amd64/i386 mirror, been using debmirror & my mirror >

Re: Debmirror Public Key Not Found

2008-09-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 00:46:31 +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to make mirror debian repository to my portable harddisk. > I am having difficulty with public key. Which public key I should > export? To where? > > Here's the result after I execute debmirror > Mirroring to main fro

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

2006-02-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060202 22:21]: [..] > No--the command apt-key doesn't exist in sarge. Quoting from Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: = > Where does Debian (or debmirror?) store the public key that debmirror > uses to validate Release files? Take a look at "man debmirror"

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
Hans Ekbrand wrote: ...Perhaps something like this would work for you too? # gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 2D230C5F # gpg --export -a 2D230C5F | apt-key add - No--the command apt-key doesn't exist in sarge. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

2006-02-02 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:08:54AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > >On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:50:47PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > > > >>Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > ... > I can't tell if I deleted a key I had b

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

2006-02-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060201 17:10]: > Where does Debian (or debmirror?) store the public key that debmirror > uses to validate Release files? Take a look at "man debmirror", it's listed in the files-section. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel B.
Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:50:47PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: ... I can't tell if I deleted a key I had before (in purging and/or re-installing some things I shouldn't have) or if upgrading

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

2006-02-01 Thread Daniel B.
I wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: ...when I try to run debmirror to keep my local mirror updated, it says: ... [0%] Keeping: dists/sarge/Release.gpg gpg: Signature made Sat Dec 17 05:46:27 2005 EST using DSA key ID 4F368D5D gp

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

2006-02-01 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:50:47PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: [...] > >>I can't tell if I deleted a key I had before (in purging and/or > >>re-installing some things I shouldn't have) or if upgrading debmirror >

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

2006-02-01 Thread Daniel B.
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: ...when I try to run debmirror to keep my local mirror updated, it says: ... [0%] Keeping: dists/sarge/Release.gpg gpg: Signature made Sat Dec 17 05:46:27 2005 EST using DSA key ID 4F368D5D gpg: Can't chec

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

2006-02-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Where does Debian (or debmirror?) store the public key that debmirror > uses to validate Release files? > > In upgrading to Sarge, I purged (or upgraded) a few too many things, and > now when I try to run debmirror to keep my local mirro

Re: Debmirror did not download all .debs?

2005-12-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
> A packages.gz file is for an entire archive (1 for main, 1 for contrib > ...etc) but it contain all sections (admin, base...). I don't think that > debmirror rebuild the packages.gz file when you exclude some section, so > every package in excluded section are in packages.gz but not in your > mir

Re: Debmirror did not download all .debs?

2005-11-18 Thread Marc PERRUDIN
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a écrit : >Hello, > > Hi, >Debmirror, such a useful tool for me, has the 'passive' option whose > > It's probably for use passive mode when you use ftp >meaning I don't know and would like someone to explain. Also, doesn't >the program sometimes include package files whi

Re: debmirror: what does 'passive' option mean?

2005-11-18 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 07:30:14AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hello, > Debmirror, such a useful tool for me, has the 'passive' option whose > meaning I don't know and would like someone to explain. I guess it's for the use of passive ftp. http://www.slacksite.org/ftp.html Sven -- If God

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

2004-12-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hi Christian, Christian Convey: > > Thanks for the info, and I'd love a copy of your apt-move.conf file. No problem. /etc/apt-move.conf (comments stripped): APTSITES="/all/" # include whole sources.list # (except file­URLs) LOCALDIR=/

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

2004-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Otto Wyss wrote: > Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > FYI, the local mirror currently has about 12GB of content. I don't know > > whether or not that implies I should expect a very long period of > > CPU-boundedness for debmirror. > > > Why don't you use dis

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

2004-12-07 Thread Christian Convey
Thanks; I'll take a look. At the moment I'm trying to disturb the existing system as little as possible, since until recently it worked. However, if I'm not successful, I'll definitely consider DpartialMirror. - Christian Otto Wyss wrote: Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FYI, the loc

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

2004-12-07 Thread Christian Convey
Hi Jochen, Thanks for the info, and I'd love a copy of your apt-move.conf file. I think I've discovered a little more. It looks like "ftp.at.debian.org" needs to be accessed via http, not ftp. When I use ftp as my protocol I seem to get all the problems. Jochen Schulz wrote: * Christian Convey: FY

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

2004-12-07 Thread Otto Wyss
Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, the local mirror currently has about 12GB of content. I don't know > whether or not that implies I should expect a very long period of > CPU-boundedness for debmirror. > Why don't you use distsync from DpartialMirror "http://dpartialmirror.sourc

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

2004-12-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
* Christian Convey: > > FYI, the local mirror currently has about 12GB of content. I don't know > whether or not that implies I should expect a very long period of > CPU-boundedness for debmirror. I don't know debmirror, but I use apt-move to maintain a local debian mirror for my machines. I upda

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

2004-12-07 Thread Christian Convey
FYI, the local mirror currently has about 12GB of content. I don't know whether or not that implies I should expect a very long period of CPU-boundedness for debmirror. - Christian Christian Convey wrote: Hi guys, I've got the following script that runs nightly to create a local debian mirror. I

Re: debmirror issue

2003-12-30 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 December 2003 11:16 pm, Greg Madden wrote: > I have been using debmiror for quite awhile. Recently it has stopped > working, the last errors are the following: > "project/trace/clos: project/trace/clos failed > Failed to download files (51

Re: debmirror ?

2003-02-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:35:43PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > clos:/home/pabi# debmirror -a i386 -h ftp-mirror.internap.com -d woody -d > testing -d unstable /mnt/pub/mirror/debian -p --getcontents > > This is the error meaasage: > "cwd to /debian failed at /usr/bin/debmirror line 337. > releasi