any howto for debmirror would be appreciated. storage size is not a problem.
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Glenn English <g...@slsware.com> wrote: > > On Nov 5, 2012, at 11:59 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> i want to dump all these on a USB. so is that >> practical what i am planning to do. to me it seems possible but i do >> not have any idea since this is very new task for me and that is why i >> need your help. > > It's called debmirror, and it's quite practical. Just takes a long time and > eats up a lot of disk space (60G or so). There's one in my basement... > > It was hard for me to set up as a newbie. But it was worth the trouble. I use > options --exclude=-dbg --exclude=kde and --exclude=gnome to save a lot of > time. But if you do, add a real full repository in sources.list so you can > get stuff these filter out of your local repo. > > Also, when I downloaded a big file, the other end dropped the connection. > Expect that, but all you have to do is start debmirror again and it will > start up where the connection was lost. It's a quite civilized program. > > -- > Glenn English > > > > > > -- > 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/dc719eb7-128e-4861-b809-8c41626f4...@slsware.com > -- 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/cagwvfmkbbsapgc3el4tlqsmp0nywatacff5kkq24zzfxjze...@mail.gmail.com
