Mirroring i386 locally

[Romeyn Prescott]

Well, that sounds wonderfully simple!

My next question, being new to the world of Debian, has to be what 
apt's server mechanism is.  Is it just an http server?  Could I just 
as well store my packages on another server?

Thanks,
...ROMeyn

At 4:04 PM +1100 11/27/04, David Collett scribbled:
>I ended up using debmirror, here is the command I used:
>
>debmirror -p --nosource --host=mirror.pacific.net.au
>--root=linux/ubuntu --method=http --dist=warty --arch=i386
>--section=main,multiverse,restricted,universe /opt/ubuntu_pacific/
>
>This will get all i386 packages from all sections (main, multiverse,
>restricted and universe), but no source packages of the "warty"
>distibution from the mirror "mirror.pacific.net.au" and create a
>mirror in the local directory /opt/ubuntu_pacific.
>
>This ends up being about 8GB of data. Now you can add a line in you
>sources.list like this:
>
>deb file:///opt/ubuntu_pacific warty main multiverse restricted universe
>
>I'm sure there are other ways too, look at debian docs, as ubuntu is
>just debian (as far as repositories/packages go).
>
>Dave
>
>On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:56:39 -0500, Romeyn Prescott
><prescor at digirom.potsdam.edu> wrote:
>>  We tasked a student assistant with developing a local RPM repository
>>  in order to update our server infrastructure:
>>
>>  http://torque.sourceforge.net/about.html
>>
>>  It'd be nice to be able to do something similar with apt.  We
>>  currently mirror the RPMS for RH8 up to FC3, as well as some custom
>>  channels of our own.
>>
>>  Someone mentioned bandwidth...what's worse: one location downloading
>>  "everything" to their local repository and having all of their
>>  servers update from THAT, or just pointing all of their servers at a
>>  "central", 'net-based repository at the same time?
>>
>>  ..ROMeyn
>>
>>  At 10:18 AM -0500 11/25/04, s.deleeuw scribbled:
>>
>>
>>  >I have the same problem! I want to download Warty's main/restricted
>>  >packages and burn them to DVD, so I can use them on PC's without
>>  >internet connection. I wrote a small script for this. Take a look at:
>>  >
>>  >http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=6060
>>  >
>>  >The next step is to create a repository from the packages. I will start
>>  >reading some APT howto's later this week. Any suggestions?
>>  >
>>  >Sander
>>  >
>>  >
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