[tech] Possibly a stupid question...
Nick Bannon
nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Thu Nov 11 09:29:08 WST 1999
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 07:28:31AM +0800, Warrick Mitchell wrote:
> rsync -avz ftp.linux.org.au::pub/debian/dists/potato /home/ftp/pub/unix/linux/debian/dists/potato
>
> is your friend :)
No, it's a false friend. ::-)
They _do_ seem to have cut it down to what's required for i386 (no source,
no other architectures) but it's still not self-contained - there's a
lot of symlinks back into slink where the package in question hasn't
changed since then. This will no doubt change when potato is released.
Hmmm... They also have to offer most of the source on demand. I wonder
if anyone's asked them - would they start mirroring it, or would they
burn some CDs?
> ftp.linux.org.au is on 10 mb fibre to waix and this will get you everythng needed for potato quickly and easily :)
>
> Seeya,
> Warrick
There's also Debian tools for making the ISO images, but I haven't looked
into them. cp, dereferencing symlinks, may do just fine.
Nick.
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