[Ilugc] Debian Sarge Mirror

[Sriram Karra]

On 4/27/05, Bhuvaneswaran A <bhuvaneswaran at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A few months back PCQuest shipped a DVD with Sarge (i386).  If nothing
> > else works out it would be best to go with it.
> 
> Thankx for your info.
> I do have the mentioned DVD. But, i wish to do the mirroring for my
> future need. I have tried to continue mirroring on top of that DVD
> image and i believe, it has got corrupted.
> 
> I have tried it with rsync.  The mirroring is in progress. But, it is
> not usable. As when i do apt-get, it reports the packages are missing
> even though they are available out there.

Be patient :-)  I think what happens is the dependencies are updated,
then apt-get will keep looking for the latest versions of packages
which might not be there because your rsync has not completed.

Also, I assume you have done a 'apt-get update' ...

-karra