Re: local mirror based on APT source.list format?

[Allister McRae <sds@threewave.com>]

read into the dpkg and apt-get (maybe even apt-* files).  There must be a 
way with those...you can do almost anything like you describe once you 
figure em out :)

Cheers,
Allister

At 06:08 PM 7/4/2003 -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
> For maintaining a local partial Debian mirror, is there any tool
> that takes an APT-style sources.list file as the specification of
> things to mirror?
>
> And does it download packages _before_ you decide to install them
> (as opposed to archiving packages after downloading them on demand)?
>
>
> What I'd like to have it this:
> - I specify what to mirror using a list of lines like in sources.list,
>   allowing combinations such as:
>   - woody
>   - testing (sharing pool subdirectories/files with woody)
>   - the Gnome2 backport to woody
> - A cron job updates my local mirror.
> - When I decide to install a package, APT installs from the local
>   mirror.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> --
> Daniel Barclay
> dsb@smart.net
>
>
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