On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:29:14PM -0700, Stephen M. Helms wrote: > Is anyone interested? If so, let me know what days/times would be good. > Also, we need to discuss a topic.
This weekend is bad. > I for one would love to learn even more about > debian package management system, both how to make a package and how to > setup a debian mirror or partial mirror (apt-move and apt-proxy I > believe). I should have a system with enough disk space now. I didn't know there were packages that did this now... but I guess it's been over a year so I should recheck... When scanning: apt-cache search Debian | grep mirror I just checked out the apt-move and apt-proxy, their main objectives appear to have not been a mirror system, the first was to maintain your own apt-get able area which can be used to supplement the up-stream's (by overriding some packages with versions you compiled). The proxy one appears to have been built to reduce the bandwidth needs of having hundreds of machines apt-get'ing ... by mirroring only the files requested. Both commands appear to have feature crept into a full mirror building role. "debmirror" appears to be more appropriate if you only want to mirror... because that is all it does. What I'm familiar with is a variant of debmirror which I pulled from a site Joey Hess had made, at the time there was nothing packaged that supported the "package pool", his script did. I taught it to do resumes of ftp transfers, how to co-exist with a non-us tree in the same area, and a few other things. I need to checkout the now packaged debmirror some more to see how much it differs from my little scripts. So anyway before doing a mini-talk about Debian mirrors I should review what's available now... TTFN, Mike > Well, I talked with Jennifer and she is alright with me having people > over to the house a couple of times a month. Better be careful, pretty soon you'll have the Vacaville LUG forming at your place. ;) _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech