[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That has been bugging me as well when I switched from ftp.debian.org to some > other mirror during the hick-ups at ftp.debian.org. It would be really nice > if we could store files dates in UTC (GMT) rather than in localtime. If we > can't persuade mirror(1) (haven't checked man page or code), maybe someone > could hack a script that "touch"es files with the info from the debian/ls-laR > file. Opinions?
I've been plagued by this too, and have lost all 455 megs a week ago because of careless and frustrated swapping of source archives without checking first. Lesson learnt, I now do a mirror -T first to sync the timestamps. # man mirror use_timelocal Time-stamp files to local time zone. If false, the time zone is set to offset 0 (compatible with older versions of mirror). [true] I've tried the above but haven't done enough consistant checking to peg down just how it works. I'd also be interested in any suggestions. I exclude debian-bugs and -lists and I notice that when mirror does the compares with a mirror -d -d that it takes quite a long time to go thru all the files in debian-lists... just to figure out to ignore them. Would the below option skip over any exclude_patt dirs altogether ? recurse_hard Have to generate remote ls by doing cwd and ls for each subdirectory. In this case remote_dir must be absolute (begin with a /) not relative. Use the pwd command in ftp to find the path for the start of the remote archive area. (Not available if remote_fs is vms.) [false] -- Mark Constable (+61 7 55275724) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vv.com.au/mc