Ubuntu's debmirror is a pain

[Karl Goetz]

Johann Spies wrote:
> It is nearly impossibble to use Ubuntu's version of debmirror in my
> situation.  I was trying to download a partial mirror from ftp.sun.ac.za
> (our local ftp-mirror) and the Ubuntu debmirror would not do it after
> complaining about a lot of md5sums not being correct and problems with
> Release-files.
>
> With the same configuration I could download an ubuntu mirror using a
> Debian Testing machine - this time with about no complaints.
>
> I have also tried debpartial-mirror on the Ubuntu machine and I could
> not get it do do anything.  There is also nearly zero documentation on
> debpartial-mirror.
>
> There must be an easier way to get a partial ubuntu mirror...
>
> Regards
> Johann
>   
I haven't had issues with Ubuntus debmirror [1]. can you be more 
specific about the errors?

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Debmirror
kk

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Karl Goetz
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