Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: PowerPC Hardware

[Lars Nooden]

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.


/Lars