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Installing apt-mirror in Debian
add to ’sources.list’ line i.e /etc/apt/sources.list file
deb http://apt-mirror.sourceforge.net/ apt-mirror/ and run
# apt-get update
# apt-get install apt-mirror
Configuring sources for apt-mirror
Open ‘mirror.list’ (from /etc/apt/ or whatever you installed it to) and add needed sources like in /etc/apt/sources.list. Finally your mirror.list may looks like this:
# apt-mirror configuration file
##
## The default configuration options (uncomment and change to override)
##
#
# set base_path /var/spool/apt-mirror
# set mirror_path $base_path/mirror
# set skel_path $base_path/skel
# set var_path $base_path/var
#
# set defaultarch
# set nthreads 20
#
##
## Example sources
##
# sarge’s section
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
# this source required for network installation ability (udebs)
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sarge main/debian-installer
# security updates is always good thing to install
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security sarge/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security sarge/updates main contrib non-free
# sarge-proposed-updates’s section
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sarge-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sarge-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
##
## Cleaner configuration example
##
#
# set cleanscript $var_path/clean.sh
#
# What directories should we clean up
# (i.e. remove files missing in up-to-date indexes)
clean http://security.debian.org/
clean http://ftp.us.debian.org/
# But exclude this directories
# (which is not managed by apt and apt-mirror)
skip-clean http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian-cd/
skip-clean http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/
skip-clean http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/doc/
skip-clean http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/tools/
skip-clean http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/project/
Running apt-mirror
Now we may run ‘apt-mirror’
# su - apt-mirror -c apt-mirror
You also can run apt-mirror from cron. Uncomment line in /etc/cron.d/apt-mirror for this purpose.
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July 23rd, 2007 at 7:03 am
Have you tested this yourself? because # su - apt-mirror -c apt-mirror does not work. You get a ‘apt-mirror: invalid config file specified at /usr/bin/apt-mirror line 101.’
The correct command is apt-mirror /etc/apt/mirror.list