I apologise if this has been covered before. I have searched the
archives and have not found any docs to help me out.
I am sysadmining a company with about 20 linux boxes, currently
running RedHat 7.3. I am running Debian Sarge on my personal machine.
What I want to do is turn my personal machine into a local mirror so
when I go home at night, I do "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" then
in the morning I update the package lists from all the other machines.
I'll then download the packages to my machine using "apt-get
--download-only" and use that as the mirror for all the other
packages. This is because I am not likely to be running BIND on my
own personal computer.
At the moment I am using this script to deal with Packages and Release:
components="main contrib non-free"
for x in $components ; do
varpath="/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_$x"_binary-i386
wwwpath="/var/www/debian/dists/testing/$x/binary-i386"
rm "$wwwpath"/Release
rm "$wwwpath"/Packages
rm "$wwwpath"/Packages.gz
cp "$varpath"_Release "$wwwpath"/Release
cp "$varpath"_Packages "$wwwpath"/Packages
gzip "$wwwpath"/Packages
cp "$varpath"_Packages "$wwwpath"/Packages
done
I know its not "The Right Way(tm)" but it works :)
My problem comes when I try to download a package such as sfs it wants
to get the file from
http://myhost/debian/pool/main/binary-i386/sfs/filename.deb
The problem is on my server, I have everything in
http://myhost/debian/pool/ with no directory structure. I don't want
to go about specifically mirroring certain files all the time, but
rather download using "apt-get --download-only" when I need the file.
How can I either make the client machine download everything from
http://myhost/debian/pool/ or easily restructure the directory where I
am storing everything? Preferably the latter option.
TIA
-John