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

debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-10 Thread Andre Majorel
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. First thought is to generate a list of file names from dists/lenny/*/binary-i386/Packages.gz and