FAI with sarge

[Dieter Faulbaum]

Hello list-members,

I try to use FAI with the sarge distribution (because woody is so old;-).
But it failed, because the mkdebmirror script exits with this error:


# /usr/share/doc/fai/examples/utils/mkdebmirror        
------------------ create mirror for debian ------------------
Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/bin/debmirror line 802.
Archive-Update-in-Progress-fai failed
project/trace/fai failed
Failed to download files (2 errors)!
receiving file list ... link_stat /dists/sarge/main/disks-i386 : No such file or directory
done
client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option?
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(636)



To use it for sarge, I change the script in this way (is there
something wrong or missed I something or what is the problem, that I
can't make a mirror of sarge):

/usr/share/doc/fai/examples/utils/mkdebmirror:

#! /bin/sh

# $Id: mkdebmirror,v 1.18 2003/01/21 15:56:27 lange Exp $
# Thomas Lange, lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de, (c) 2001-2003

# create partitial debian mirror using debmirror new in unstable/sarge
# needs debmirror 20020427-1 or newer

# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
rsync_disks() {

    # get the boot disks
    rsync --delete -av $rsynchost::debian/dists/$1/main/disks-$arch $destdir/debian/dists/$1/main/
}

# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
update_from() {

    # update local mirror from host $1
    host=$1
    allopt="$debug --passive --getcontents --nosource --arch=$arch --ignore=disks-$arch/"
    #defopt="$allopt --host=$host --dist=$dist,$dist-proposed-updates"
    defopt="$allopt --host=$host --dist=$dist"

    echo "------------------ create mirror for debian ------------------"
    debmirror $destdir/debian $defopt

#    echo "------------------ create mirror for debian-non-US ------------------"
#    debmirror $destdir/debian-non-US $defopt -r /debian-non-US -s non-US/main,non-US/contrib,non-US/non-free
}
# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
# main program

arch=i386
#dist=woody
dist=sarge
debug="$@"
destdir=/files/scratch/debmirror

# first sync to a mirror near to you
#update_from ftp.uni-koeln.de

# since this mirror is not always up to date, sync now to an official mirror
#update_from ftp.de.debian.org
#update_from ftp2.de.debian.org
update_from ftp.debian.org

# even one should not mirror the security site, but I will do it.
# there is no (Debian-)security for sarge (yet), so I commented it out
#echo "------------------ create mirror for debian-security ------------------"
#debmirror $destdir/debian-security $allopt --host=security.debian.org -r debian-security -d $dist/updates

rsynchost=ftp2.de.debian.org
rsync_disks $dist



I hope anyone can help me.


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