Mirroring Ubuntu

[Johann Spies]

I don't see a mailing list for ubuntu mirror-administrators so I am
asking my question on the user-list.

I have a problem with the size of the ubuntu mirror and want to mirror
the i386 and amd64 trees of ubuntu excluding the warty distribution.

The complex structure of ubuntu/debian archives makes this a non-trivial
task using rsync.  So I have tried debmirror with the following
configuration:

HOST=rsync.mirrorservice.org

DISTS="warty-security,warty-updates,hoary,hoary-backports,hoary-security,hoary-updates,breezy,breezy-backports,breezy-security,breezy-updates,dapper,dapper-security,dapper-updates"
ARCHS="i386,amd64"
SECTION="main,multiverse,restricted,universe"

MIRROR_ROOT=':archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/'
LOCAL="/home/ftp/pub/mirrors/ubuntu.com"
METHOD="rsync"
OPTIONS="--getcontents --dry-run"

if [ -f $LOCAL/Archive-Update-in-Progress-debian ]
then
echo "Mirroring ubuntu"
echo "So exiting"
exit
fi

echo "Processing standard using $HOST"
/usr/bin/debmirror --section=$SECTION --host=$HOST --method=$METHOD
--dist=$DISTS --arch=$ARCHS $OPTIONS -r $MIRROR_ROOT $LOCAL
/bin/rm -f $LOCAL/Archive-Update-in-Progress-debian

which ends with


 Download of dists/warty-security/Contents-i386.gz failed
 Download of dists/warty-security/Contents-amd64.gz failed
 Download of dists/warty-updates/Contents-i386.gz failed
 Download of dists/warty-updates/Contents-amd64.gz failed
 Download of dists/hoary-backports/Contents-i386.gz failed
 Download of dists/hoary-backports/Contents-amd64.gz failed
 Download of dists/hoary-security/Contents-i386.gz failed
 Download of dists/hoary-security/Contents-amd64.gz failed
 Download of dists/hoary-updates/Contents-i386.gz failed
 Download of dists/hoary-updates/Contents-amd64.gz failed
 Download of dists/breezy-backports/universe/binary-i386/Packages failed
 dists/breezy-backports/universe/binary-i386/Packages failed md5sum
check
 Download of dists/breezy-backports/universe/binary-amd64/Packages
failed
 dists/breezy-backports/universe/binary-amd64/Packages failed md5sum
check
 Download of dists/breezy-backports/universe/source/Sources failed
 dists/breezy-backports/universe/source/Sources failed md5sum check,
removing
 Download of dists/breezy-backports/Contents-i386.gz failed
 Download of dists/breezy-backports/Contents-amd64.gz failed
 Download of dists/breezy-security/Contents-i386.gz failed
 Download of dists/breezy-security/Contents-amd64.gz failed
 Download of dists/breezy-updates/Contents-i386.gz failed
 Download of dists/breezy-updates/Contents-amd64.gz failed
 Download of dists/dapper-security/Contents-i386.gz failed
 Download of dists/dapper-security/Contents-amd64.gz failed
 Download of dists/dapper-updates/Contents-i386.gz failed
 Download of dists/dapper-updates/Contents-amd64.gz failed
Failed to download some Package, Sources, Contents or release files!

Now my questions:  Is there a way do mirror just hoary, breezy and dapper
using rsync?  

Regards
Johann 
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Johann Spies          Telefoon: 021-808 4036
Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

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