[DEBMIRROR] - size

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:30:41 +0200, François Chenais <francois at chenais.net> said:

    > Le jeu 07/10/2004 à 16:15, Thomas Lange a écrit :
    >> > 	What is the size needed on disque to run mkdebmirror ?
    >> A local Debian mirror for woody needs about 6 GB, for sarge about
    >> 10GB. I386 only, no sources.

    > Ouch !
    > I'll not have enough disk space on my laptop :-)

    > The first download is long and what about the updates ?
You can try isntall_packages -l which gives you a list of all packages
needed. Then use this list to create a partitial mirror. Have a look
at the FAI bootCD project. This is using this function.
-- 
regards Thomas