Re: redirect apt to local repository
Did you look at apt-proxy?
On 4/13/05, Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 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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