Taher,
The readme (http://apt.puppetlabs.com/README.txt) suggests using
`rsync -av --copy-links --del rsync://apt.puppetlabs.com/packages/apt/
/var/apt/` to mirror the apt repos, which should work.

Hope that helps.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Taher Bohari <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to mirror puppet packages locally. I am trying to mirror it using
> "cobbler reposync".
>
> But I am getting the error as  http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/
> is no longer present.
>
> Instead puppet packages are found at  http://apt.puppetlabs.com/dists/
> location. Using this path also gives me the error.
>
> Does any one knows how to mirror the puppet packages?
>
> --
> Thanks.
>
>
> On Friday, January 6, 2012 at 7:49:06 AM UTC+5:30, Adam Gibbins wrote:
>>
>> The recommendation for mirroring debian repositories is generally to use
>> something like apt-mirror or apt-cacher-ng.  Is there a reason you can't do
>> this?
>>
>> These work by checking the index (e.g.
>> http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages) and
>> pulling the packages.  You can't walk a HTTP repository, HTTP isn't smart
>> like that.
>>
>> On 6 January 2012 01:46, Aaron Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am wanting to set up a local mirror of apt.puppetlabs.com, and am a
>>> bit confused by the layout as well as the announcement that was made
>>> in this thread:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/0786824ea9531fe3/f53c9006843ab8dc
>>>
>>> I'm not sure exactly what I should be pulling, as
>>> rsync://apt.puppetlabs.com/packages/apt
>>> gets everything, but it seems like a bit of a mess. The top-level
>>> pool/ directory is older than the top-level dists/ directory, but that
>>> seems to be what is recommended in the above thread. If you look just
>>> at the subdirectory ubuntu/ everything is in sync (all updated on Jan
>>> 3rd, 2012), however there are a ton of date-specific directories
>>> listed under http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ubuntu/dists/ that seem to have
>>> duplicate information.
>>>
>>> I'm hoping that someone will know the proper way to rsync this mirror,
>>> so things are compatible going forward. Thanks!
>>>
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