Re: Mirroring the easy way and the .udebs - howto?
Mattias Wadenstein (maswan@acc.umu.se) wrote on 26 March 2010 13:10:
>On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Stefan Bauer wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> i'm looking for the best solution to create a tiny local mirror to
>> serve only the i386 arch and the corresponding .udebs for my clients
>> using the 8MB netboot pxe image.
>>
>> apt-mirror is not able to mirror also the required .udeb files.
>> ftpsync is ways to big and i dont see a way to just mirror a small
>> bunch of required packages. Running it the first time with an
>> appropriate --exclude statement ends up in an archiv with close to
>> 70GB of data in pool :/
>>
>> What's best? I dont want to mess around with unhandy scripts and
>> stuff. To be honest i dont think that i'm the only one who is trying
>> to achieve such a setup.
>
>Would a caching proxy maybe work just as well and be easier to maintain?
Yes. I used apt-cacher-ng and it worked fine. Even if the net is not
always available you can update/install clients if the package is
already on disk.
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