Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-05-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Jens, Am 2008-05-05 15:29:27, schrieb Jens Seidel: You can use the jigdo files such as debian-40r2-i386-DVD-1.jigdo from http://www.debian.co.il/debian-cd/4.0_r2/i386/jigdo-dvd/ or http://ftp.pwr.wroc.pl/debian-iso/4.0_r1/i386/jigdo-dvd/debian-40r1-i386-DVD-1.jigdo to extract this

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-05-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-04-28 20:21:34, schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: If you have for example the ORIGINAL CDs/DVD's of 3.1r4 I can build the package tree from there since I have all original packages I only do not know which packages went included in the releases... Did anyone mention

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-05-05 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:20:32PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: As I have written, I have nearly 20 TByte of Debian packages on my mirror and only accidently killet the /debian/dists/ directory with all its Packages.gz, Sources.gz, Release and releases.gpg files. I have all

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-04-25 16:07:51, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: You are asking generically Packages without specifying a mirror. Are they granted to be identically replicated among all mirrors? Of course they *probably* are due to how mirroring works, but is it *granted* that there are no differences

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am 2008-04-25 16:07:51, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: You are asking generically Packages without specifying a mirror. Are they granted to be identically replicated among all mirrors? Of course they *probably* are due to how mirroring works, but is it

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Weber dijo [Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:25:04AM +0200]: j By the way, it would be great if the mirrors kept more than just a j week of Diffs. [...] Diffs are often quite small. The time needed to establish a connection is often comparable to the

[OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-26 Thread peter green
I have had an accident on my Debian-Archiv-Server and unfortunatly the files Packages.gz, Packages.bz2, Sources.gz, Sources.bz2 and Release from the directories Afaict snapshot.debian.net has woody down to r4 and all point release of sarge and etch. For older point releases of woody you

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-25 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 10:56:18 25.04.2008 UTC+08 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] did gyre and gimble: j By the way, it would be great if the mirrors kept more than just a j week of Diffs. It seems every time I get back from a trip, I end up j uploading the whole Packages.gz file again. Two weeks worth would

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-25 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Freitag, den 25.04.2008, 13:16 +0700 schrieb Mikhail Gusarov: Twas brillig at 10:56:18 25.04.2008 UTC+08 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] did gyre and gimble: j By the way, it would be great if the mirrors kept more than just a j week of Diffs. It seems every time I get back from a trip, I end

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:35:57PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: I have had an accident on my Debian-Archiv-Server and unfortunatly the files Packages.gz, Packages.bz2, Sources.gz, Sources.bz2 and Release from the directories Neat project. I'm jumping into it with a question which

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-25 Thread Eric Cooper
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:07:51PM +0800, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: You are asking generically Packages without specifying a mirror. Are they granted to be identically replicated among all mirrors? Of course they *probably* are due to how mirroring works, but is it *granted* that there are no

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Thomas Weber dijo [Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:25:04AM +0200]: j By the way, it would be great if the mirrors kept more than just a j week of Diffs. It seems every time I get back from a trip, I end up j uploading the whole Packages.gz file again. Two weeks worth would be j better.

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Diffs are often quite small. The time needed to establish a connection is often comparable to the time a diff takes to be downloaded... So, even with pipelining and all, storing too many diffs becomes irrelevant. There's also the (non-trivial) overhead

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-24 Thread jidanni
By the way, it would be great if the mirrors kept more than just a week of Diffs. It seems every time I get back from a trip, I end up uploading the whole Packages.gz file again. Two weeks worth would be better. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Lennart, Am 2008-04-04 12:44:38, schrieb Lennart Sorensen: Certainly archive.debian.org would have the last version of each release (so 2.2r5, 3.0r6, etc). Thank you for this hint... The CDs would have had seperate (and different) Packages.gz since there would be one on each CD

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:44:38PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Neat project. I am not sure why being able to install 3.0r3 rather than 3.0r6 is necesarily very useful, but it is neat to have the choice. To have reproducibility of installations, where such is necessary (e.g., software escrow

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:35:57PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, I have had an accident on my Debian-Archiv-Server and unfortunatly the files Packages.gz, Packages.bz2, Sources.gz, Sources.bz2 and Release from the directories /debian/dists/${RELEASE}/main/binary-${ARCH}/