Hi, I'm new to Debian as well (first install ten days ago) and I have exactly the same requirements as you. Maybe we can help each other...
apt-move has worked for me in this way: - Set up a webserver on the machine where the apt-cache you want to create a partial mirror is. apt-get install apache or if you want more security, apt-get install apache-ssl Make a directory which can be served by the webserver, like /var/www/debian. Set LOCALDIR in /etc/apt-move.conf: LOCALDIR=/var/www/debian You are now all set to start building your own partial Debian mirror. For the first time, do apt-move -v update For subsequent times you can do apt-move -v localupdate The -v is just the usual verbose option, for peace of mind. Now there are still a few things I'm unclear about myself: 1. How does one add packages from the caches on machines other than the one on which the mirror is? The obvious answer is to sync /var/cache/apt/archives from all machines to the mirror machine and run apt-move on that one machine, but I haven't tried it yet; and I don't know if there's a more "official" and/or more elegant way. 2. How to get apt-move to include packages from more than one Debian dist in the mirror? I've only been successful with the stable dist. so far, and we all know that before long we are bound to install some packages from testing and unstable... ;-) Happy (partial) mirroring, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus