[tech] Local debian mirrors (was Re: [wheel] webcam user not in NIS and general mussel stuff)

[Nick Bannon]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 03:24:25PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> ftp.uwa.edu.au still syncs from ftp.it.net.au. The space problems have 
> been due to Debian really messing up (TM) and buggering the move into 
> pools somehow so that the mirror takes (literally) a couple of gigabytes 
> more, even with the new architectures filtered out.

I think it genuinely takes up that much space, at least I can't find
significant amounts of duplicated files with ;

mussel: /tmp>find /linux/debian -ls > debian.txt
mussel: /tmp>for i in `sort -n +6 debian.txt|awk '{print $7}'|uniq -d|tail -20`;do
  grep $i debian.txt
done|less

The woody freeze has begun, so there'll be even more testing and
unstable divergence (and space requirements) soon.

Nick.

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