Is there a way to mirror just the Debian package files needed for a given architecture?
That is, given the pool directories and all the symbolic links to them, is there any way to mirror just the section under /debian/dists/potato and just the files needed for binary-i386? I'm currently using mirror, but run into a series of problems: - If I don't flatten or suppress the symbolic links, it seems I'd have to mirror the whole pool in order to have the pool files to which the symbolic links under /debian/dists/potato refer. I don't have space for that. Thereore, I configured mirror to flatten symbolic links (download the linked file instead of creating a link locally). - I got a lot of duplicate .deb files because I've flattened the links from /debian/dists/potato/.../binary-i386 to /debian/dists/potato/.../binary-all. I don't really have the space for that either. Since I thought everything the binary-all directories was linked to from the binary-i386 directory, I mirrored just the binary-i386 directories (with links flattened). - Unfortunately, the Packages file refers to the binary-all directories. To solve that, I created a "binary-all" symbolic link to each "binary-i386" directory. - Unfortunately, it turns out that not everything listed in binary-all is also listed in binary-i386 on the server. ** Is that intentional or an error? For example, ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/doc/ does not list glibc-doc..., although that file is in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-all/doc/ . Does rsync give better control over link expansion than mirror? (E.g., for any link under /debian/dists/potato to a file not under /debian/dists/potato, expand the link (as a file under /debian/dists/potato); but for links within the subtree rooted at /debian/dists/potato, preserve them.) Does some form of apt support permanently mirroring a distribution? (Permanently as opposed to whichever cache it is that apt asks if you want to purge?) (I want to maintain a local mirror so that when I want to install something, it's already downloaded and I can install it quickly.) Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )
