Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote:
Hello, Our school has decided to setup an FTP server. It will be generally dedicated to free software. I would like to put a debian mirror on it. It's runnning Red Hat (an enterprise version) #1 Is there any tips to setup a debian mirror under a RH box? I woul like to mirror only sparc and x86 arches (binary and src; free, non-free, contrib)
If you want to mirror the entire archive (at least for certain arches) then use debmirror: /usr/bin/debmirror -p -v --nosource -m --host=http.us.debian.org --arch=i386,sparc --method=http --dist=sarge --section=main,contrib,non-free --cleanup /mirrordir You can probably get a source tarball and compile it on the server and install it in /usr/local or something.
#2 Would you know a how to on setting up a local mirror of debian (it's to avoid downloading ten times the same thing when updating the ten Debians we have)? this #2 is for a Deian box. (binary, src; free, non- free, contrib)
If you are going to mirror the entire archive like you mention in #1 above, then simply make sure the archive mirror is downloaded into a directory that is served up by apache on the server. Then you point all your clients to that server in sources.list. Otherwise, you may want to consider apt-proxy, which just proxies connections to public Debian mirrors and builds a partial mirror for you as it goes. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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