RE: minimal mirror for lenny net install
> From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:tzafrir@cohens.org.il]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:05 AM
> Subject: minimal mirror for lenny net install
>
> Hi
>
> I'd like to run a network installation setup on my LAN. With previous
> versions I could just take a Debian Installer CD (e.g.: the netinst)
and
> loopmount it to get the initial files. This provides me most of the
> required files.
>
> The problem is that the installer CDs no longer contain signed images.
> I'd like to avoid any hacks with configuring a system to use unsigned
> sources as at least with Etch this affected the usability later on.
>
> How do I make a compact partial Debian mirror? I don't have the extra
> disk space and network bandwidth[1] for a full mirror.
>
> [1] Well, I do. But it would be a waste of time and disk space and
> complicate the setup. I want to have a mirror that contains all the
> packages in my default install, so I won't need to re-download them
from
> the Internet every time. But downloading a few gigs every once in a
> while to maintain the mirror is not something I want either.
>
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Not sure this is what you are looking for, but I use apt-cacher. It
works really well. It only downloads the packages you request from it so
you get the benefit of a local mirror, without having to actually host a
full mirror. It can even support multiple Arch Repos so that I only have
1 apt-cacher system that serves for i386, AMD64, and IA64 for Etch,
Lenny, and Sid (for me all of those arch/repos only take up 2.8GB). It
has also been stable for a really long time so there are a ton of how-to
guides out there (including several links on this list).
There is also apt-proxy, but for me it didn't work nearly as well as
apt-cacher.
Have fun!
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