redirect apt to local repository
hi folks,
Using debmirror, I've downloaded a mirror of the Ubuntu hoary repository to
a hard drive. It works fine in my /etc/apt/sources.list when added
with a "file://" url.
now, the tricky part. I wantto deploy this mirror in a classroom
that's not hooked up to the internet. We will have a bunch of
computers connected to a router (running debian I reckon, actually
haven't set this bit up yet -- any suggestions?), and therefore a
local network that I hope will work fine. The computers in the
network, though, will at some point be removed from the network and
taken into people's homes. So I would like to LEAVE sources.list
POINTING TO http://archive.ubuntu.com , and somehow use the router to
fool the computers into thinking that they are connecting to ubuntu
when in fact they're accessing my local repository.
sooo... how would one do this? first guess:
in /etc/hosts on the router add a line like:
127.0.0.1 archive.ubuntu.com
in /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName archive.ubuntu.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/archive/mirror
</VirtualHost>
does that sound about right? I guess maybe the individual machines
have to be set to use the router as a DNS server... which means
probably the bit about /etc/hosts is far too simplistic...
anyway any ideas anyone has are vvvveeeeerrry welcome.
thx,
matt
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