Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: PowerPC Hardware

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:12:20 +0200
Lars Nooden <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> > Did you read the Debian documentation [1] about this? It seems that
> > only mirrors with particular tags are good to mirror from.
> > 
> > [1] http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror.en.html
> 
> Yes, I've read that one, but still seem to miss some detail about
> rsync. The sites I tried should have had rsync available:
>  http://mirror.debian.org/status.html
> So the mistake is on my end probably.
> 
> Karl Goetz wrote:
> > Then use http?
> 
> Use of HTTP and FTP is discouraged in the guides for obvious reasons.
> rsync seems to be the sustainable option.
> 
> Could you post the settings for a working debmirror setup on or off
> list?  It's easier to start from an example.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Debmirror#Create%20the%20file%20%60mirrorbuild.sh%60
Its 'drifted' a bit from when I wrote the original, but ya know how it
goes. (may contain references to proprietary software, I haven't double
checked).
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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