Backport deb sources

On 10/26/05, Sam Liddicott <sam at liddicott.com> wrote:
>
> John Dong wrote:
>
> > Well, from now on, I'll modify our scripts to have the dpkg source
> > folders for Breezy Extras. I'll also dump all our Hoary extras sources
> > into the magical source folder, which is better than unfreezing the
> > hoary-* mirrormaxes and having rsync go crazy....
> >
>
> Is this the same for backports as well? I'm still not sure if backports
> are extras....


Backports are hosted on official archive.ubuntu.com<http://archive.ubuntu.com>,
which does provide deb-src repos for Backports. It's only Extras in
question.

(
> And, meaning to be a swine, and I won't follow up on this query [not
> this year, anyway], but surely the same thing applies for the hoary-*
> mirrormaxes? - rsync may go crazy, but it will be doing it for the sake
> of the GPL
>
> I was wondering though, if some magic apache config could redirect
> requests for src debs to a single src server, in order to save rsync
> going crazy. mirrormax can pretend to have the source, but when it's
> requested, a nice redirect sends apt-get (or whatever) to the real
> server to fetch it.
>
> As long as the real server is under your control (the mirror master?)
> you know it will be there
> )
>
> >
> > Sorry for the inconvenience....
> >
>
> it's cool, thanks very much for what you have been doing.
>
> >
> > P.S. I've been pretty swamped the past few days and the upcoming week,
> > so it may not be until mid next month before the scripts start working
> > correctly...
>
> Aye, I'm consious of appearing unjust and ungrateful, and you are the
> great benefactor, so I thank you and thank you again.
>
> Sam
>
>
>
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