Fernando Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi! | | I have a private mirror of debian in one of our servers so that I | can install/update a machine fast with the *latest* versions. | | The problem is that I have not much disk space and I would like | to keep the mirrored files to a minimum. With my current mirror | configuration I seem to be mirroring two copies of "hamm", one | in /hamm and other in /dists/hamm. | | Are these directories both necessary? What is the minimum to have | a Debian 2.0 full mirror?
A week or so ago this was all hashed out. I even sent a copy of my mirror configuration file that only keeps a mirror of the frozen distribution, and within that, only that portion relevant to the i386, to debian-user. You might try the mailing list archive at http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archive, although the search facility doesn't always seem to catch things. My config file for mirror can be found at http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9806/msg02464.html In summary, the recommended method of mirroring debian is using <mirror root>/debian/dists/<your choice> <mirror root> will vary depending on whether you mirror ftp.debian.org directly, in which case <mirror root> is empty, or you use someone else's mirror of that site. <your choice> is whatever version you want to mirror. In my case <your choice> is frozen. Of course you could leave <your choice> blank and get all the distributions. Make sure you don't use flags_recursive+L in mirror unnecessarily because this will flatten out symlinks and could easily cause you to get duplications. Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null