[Here for anyone else that may need it - probably offtopic for this list after that.]
On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 12:19:27AM +0800, Zhang Boyang wrote: > > On 2022/5/21 22:54, Linux-Fan wrote: > > > > I admit a local mirror is more suitable for large set of computers. > > > But for a small set of computers, for example, 1-5 computers, > > > setting up a local mirror might be too heavy. > > > > Actually I think this may be a misconception. Setting up a mirror for > > internal use is (from my experience with the `ftpsync` script, cf. > > https://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror) pretty straight-forward. AFAIK > > the minimal steps are as follows: > > > > - Download and extract ftpsync to a location > > - Configure distrib/etc/ftpsync.conf > > - Setup a webserver to serve the mirror directory > > - Invoke mirror script > > - Then point clients to the webserver location > > > > Thanks for this information. I think I overestimated the difficulty of > creating a mirror. > Quoting myself - which might be bad form http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/rebuilding-mirror-software-mirroring-of.html gives the full steps to set up a mirror by editing one script, more or less. You do need rsync and a mirror to pull from but this is really, really easy to do. Setting up Apache is covered in another blog in that series at almost the same time - it's essentially just unocmmenting the stanza for /srv in the default configuration. [My mirror directories are all under /srv ] Hope this helps, Andy Cater > > > Best Regards, > Zhang Boyang >