Backport deb sources

John Dong wrote:

> Well, from now on, I'll modify our scripts to have the dpkg source 
> folders for Breezy Extras. I'll also dump all our Hoary extras sources 
> into the magical source folder, which is better than unfreezing the 
> hoary-* mirrormaxes and having rsync go crazy....
>  

Is this the same for backports as well? I'm still not sure if backports 
are extras....

(
And, meaning to be a swine, and I won't follow up on this query [not 
this year, anyway], but surely the same thing applies for the hoary-* 
mirrormaxes? -  rsync may go crazy, but it will be doing it for the sake 
of the GPL

I was wondering though, if some magic apache config could redirect 
requests for src debs to a single src server, in order to save rsync 
going crazy. mirrormax can pretend to have the source, but when it's 
requested, a nice redirect sends apt-get (or whatever) to the real 
server to fetch it.

As long as the real server is under your control (the mirror master?) 
you know it will be there
)

>  
> Sorry for the inconvenience....
>  

it's cool, thanks very much for what you have been doing.

>  
> P.S. I've been pretty swamped the past few days and the upcoming week, 
> so it may not be until mid next month before the scripts start working 
> correctly...

Aye, I'm consious of appearing unjust and ungrateful, and you are the 
great benefactor, so I thank you and thank you again.

Sam