download repository
I bought an external harddisk for downloading the Trisquel repository.
1.
In order to download the repository
in which format should I format the harddisk?
ext4 or other ?
2.
to download the repository
what do I have to do that it downloads to the harddisk and not to the download folder of my Trisquel home/download folder?
Will it ask me where to store everything, if I start downloading?
I prefer to ask before doing it.
3.
which mirror will it choose?
Will it choose the one which I am using in Trisquel?
4.
What should I do if the download stops?
To use the command to download again?
Will it ask me e.g. if I should download only the not downloaded yet?
in order not to start again from scratch?
How can I avoid to start again from scratch?
5.
What else do I have to consider?
thanks
Gottfried
(Forbidden error. Trying to send only the beginning.)
According to the manual pituforojo linked, you want to open a terminal in a directory of your external drive (the contextual menus of many graphical file managers usually have an entry for that) and execute:
$ rsync -rlpthi --delete-after --stats rsync.trisquel.org::trisquel.packages .
(It went through for some reason! Sending the rest still fails with a Forbidden error. Trying to only send a little bit.)
In order to download the repository in which format should I format the harddisk?
It does not really matter. Ext4 is fine.
(It looks like the longer, the more prone to the Forbidden error. I cannot even answer two questions.)
to download the repository what do I have to do that it downloads to the harddisk and not to the download folder of my Trisquel home/download folder?
Execute the command line above from a working directory on the external drive (as I explained) or change the final "." for a path to a directory on the external drive.
(Getting there, one answer at a time...)
which mirror will it choose?
The command line above downloads from rsync.trisquel.org
What should I do if the download stops? To use the command to download again?
Yes.
You may want to add "-P" to the command line above.
(Getting worse.)
In this way, the progress will be reported and, in case of interruption, you will not have to download part of a file that has already been transferred.
(Must be *very* short now, apparently.)
What else do I have to consider?
I would say apt-offline, to only download what you want. Nevertheless, you wrote that "it seems there is still a problem somewhere", what does not really help to diagnose it. Contrary to what you wrote, apt-offline (supposedly) "determines package dependencies", according to https://deepwiki.com/rickysarraf/apt-offline/1.2-quick-start-guide
(Well, the acceptable length increased somehow.)
I thought it might have something to do with the browser, but ungoogled-chromium too has this problem. I guess it turns out we are the misbehaving bots.
thanks to all,
where should I put the -P in the command?
please write it out to know for sure