debian archive

[Marcel Kunath]

Okay under futher inspection I am already filtering most stuff out. Duh. Guess
my script was better than I thought. What are these *.dsc files for packages?
The diff.gz and orig.tar.gz files are the sources so I could live without them
as I don't sync the source tree anyhow.?!

...thinking out loud....

mk

> > Hello, >
> well I finally managed to get the base system on a drive. It's woody and reise
r
> so I am happy about that. I locally rsynced the debian archive and I thought I

> had it all but during the install I noticed it referred to pool/ directory
> which I hadn't rsynced. I am doing that right now but I am wondering if I am
> being efficient.
>
> Basically my rsync script downloads everything from under dists except source/
,
> non-'binary-all/' and non-'binary-i386/'. I am syncing pool/ right now but poo
l
> contains packages for all platforms if I am correct.
>
> Could I just sync pool/ and include *i386.deb and *all.deb and maybe *.tar.gz
> and catch all I need for my systems? Basically I like to know if there is some

> type of orderly system pool is organized with.
>
> Thanks,
>
>  -- Marcel Kunath
>
> *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>
>  Montie House Network            Greater Lansing Linux Users Group
>   http://www.montiehouse.com      http://www.gllug.org
>
> *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> _______________________________________________
> linux-user mailing list
> linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> http://www.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user
>


--
Marcel Kunath

*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

 Montie House Network            Greater Lansing Linux Users Group
  http://www.montiehouse.com      http://www.gllug.org

*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*