Re: debian mirror on other dist

[Laurent CARON <lcaron@apartia.fr>]

Rui Silva wrote:

> hi there!!!
>
> I'm trying to make a debian mirror on my university, because theres a lot of 
> people that uses debian here, but i have a problem...
> the computer in witch the mirror is to be located is built using REDHAT7.3 (i 
> know that sucks).
>
> there is no way for me to change the dist in that machine, and i can't do 
> mirrors in any other machine because of school policy.
>
> the computer already have mirroring software, all I need is a way to make apt 
> see that location as a debian mirrors. I think a have to run a dpkg comand to 
> build those special packets that apt downloads when we make apt-get update, 
> but how can i do it in REDHAT???
>
> is there any way to make a mirror for debian there???
>  
Hello

The best is to use rsync or debmirror to make the mirror and serve it 
with a regular ftp or http server.

Laurent