Re: Packages for offline repository
On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 07:48:55PM -0400, jcfyrr wrote:
•Terminal command to download (clone) the entire Debian package 
repository (contrib, main, non-free-firmware, non-free) for an apt 
compatible offline local repository of every Debian package. Only 
including architectures AMD64, ARM64, and all (universal) to include 
those only available as all.deb, as well as any other necessary files.
•Terminal command to update the local repository without redownloading 
everything.
debmirror can do this sort of thing.
•What will the possible approximate size of the repository be  only 
including AMD64, ARM64, and all (universal), as well as other necessary 
files in the repository if needed.
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debmirror/-/blob/master/mirror_size is 
an attempt to tabulate estimates for various combinations that people 
might want to mirror, which I update every six months.
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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]
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