debian-multimirror 2.5

debian-multimirror is a multithreaded debian mirroring tool, written in perl with great flexibility for mirroring a custom subset of the debian OS.
Main features:
- A tool for generating mirroring information from sources.list files.
- Excluding, including and including the union of one or several list of packages. (For example the output of dpkg --get-selections from several machines). (completed!!)
- Uses parallel programming so can exploit redundancy between mirrors and download from several mirrors at the same time for best performance and less mirror load. (Uses only one thread per mirror in order not to saturate individual mirrors).
- Uses XML format for configuration file. (completed!! ).
- Package information data is big, so memory consumption is around 80 Mb in the common case, and 30 Mb minimum (for one distribution and one host).
- Uses a custom algorithm to select a consistent set of packages and currently chooses the most replicated package set.
- It can still benefit from out of sync or even broken mirrors.
- Checks SHA1 and MD5 package information for assuring data integrity.
- Handles missing files on a mirror, and tries to get it from other
Enhancements:
- There is now support for signing Release files with gpg.