Re: Setting up a local mirror
From: Paul (paula4l_at_access4less.net)
Date: 02/16/05
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:48:52 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
stephen parkinson wrote:
> John Oxley wrote:
>
>> I apologise if this has been covered before. I have searched the
>> archives and have not found any docs to help me out.
>>
>> I am sysadmining a company with about 20 linux boxes, currently
>> running RedHat 7.3. I am running Debian Sarge on my personal machine.
>>
>> What I want to do is turn my personal machine into a local mirror so
>> when I go home at night, I do "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" then
>> in the morning I update the package lists from all the other machines.
>>
>> I'll then download the packages to my machine using "apt-get
>> --download-only" and use that as the mirror for all the other
>> packages. This is because I am not likely to be running BIND on my
>> own personal computer.
>>
>> At the moment I am using this script to deal with Packages and Release:
>>
>> components="main contrib non-free"
>>
>> for x in $components ; do
>>
>> varpath="/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_$x"_binary-i386
>>
>> wwwpath="/var/www/debian/dists/testing/$x/binary-i386"
>>
>> rm "$wwwpath"/Release
>> rm "$wwwpath"/Packages
>> rm "$wwwpath"/Packages.gz
>> cp "$varpath"_Release "$wwwpath"/Release
>> cp "$varpath"_Packages "$wwwpath"/Packages
>> gzip "$wwwpath"/Packages
>> cp "$varpath"_Packages "$wwwpath"/Packages
>> done
>>
>> I know its not "The Right Way(tm)" but it works :)
>>
>> My problem comes when I try to download a package such as sfs it wants
>> to get the file from
>> http://myhost/debian/pool/main/binary-i386/sfs/filename.deb
>>
>> The problem is on my server, I have everything in
>> http://myhost/debian/pool/ with no directory structure. I don't want
>> to go about specifically mirroring certain files all the time, but
>> rather download using "apt-get --download-only" when I need the file.
>> How can I either make the client machine download everything from
>> http://myhost/debian/pool/ or easily restructure the directory where I
>> am storing everything? Preferably the latter option.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> -John
>>
>>
>>
>>
> deb_mirror (or something similar) seems to work quite nicely
>
> stephen
>
>
do you mean apt-proxy?
paul
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