Re: Personal Debian mirror
From: Bob Proulx >You should be able to point your sources.list there to retrieve them. I am currently looking through the FAI server material, but was wondering if I could just use SAMBA since it is a public share? Would this be a case of: deb file:/debmirror/debian/ stable main contrib or would I need to do some type of "smbmount" for apt to install/update my packages? (Still looking at my options for the simplest way of accessing the mirror from our network. Suggestions very much appreciated.) Thanks, Preston
Re: Personal Debian mirror
On 05/08/05, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How much disk space is required to do this? Our 386 Sarge mirror, just binaries, takes up about 9Gb for main, contrib and non-free. Cheers Adam
Re: Personal Debian mirror
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Doofus wrote: Adam Mercer wrote: On 04/08/05, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages were dumped into folders under "pool/" and folders it created such as "stable", "unstable", and "woody" were essentially empty. (Now I am trying an rsync string to see what the difference will be.) I was wondering if other people could give me some feedback on how they did their mirrors. What commands did you use and where are there some good howto's on doing it as efficiently as possible? Also, since I don't want to mirror the ISO files I was wondering how difficult it would be to use something like jigdo to create the disks from my own mirror? I've attached the debmirror script we run everyday to update the mirror for our beowulf cluster, it maybe of some help How much disk space is required to do this? I'm mirroring woody and sarge for i386, including non-free and source files. I'm not mirroring debian-security. My mirror takes about 37 GB for this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Personal Debian mirror
Adam Mercer wrote: On 04/08/05, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages were dumped into folders under "pool/" and folders it created such as "stable", "unstable", and "woody" were essentially empty. (Now I am trying an rsync string to see what the difference will be.) I was wondering if other people could give me some feedback on how they did their mirrors. What commands did you use and where are there some good howto's on doing it as efficiently as possible? Also, since I don't want to mirror the ISO files I was wondering how difficult it would be to use something like jigdo to create the disks from my own mirror? I've attached the debmirror script we run everyday to update the mirror for our beowulf cluster, it maybe of some help How much disk space is required to do this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Personal Debian mirror
On 04/08/05, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror > (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my > mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages > were dumped into folders under "pool/" and folders it created such as > "stable", "unstable", and "woody" were essentially empty. (Now I am trying > an rsync string to see what the difference will be.) > > I was wondering if other people could give me some feedback on how they did > their mirrors. What commands did you use and where are there some good > howto's on doing it as efficiently as possible? > > Also, since I don't want to mirror the ISO files I was wondering how > difficult it would be to use something like jigdo to create the disks from my > own mirror? I've attached the debmirror script we run everyday to update the mirror for our beowulf cluster, it maybe of some help Cheers Adam mkdebmirroruk.lnx0 Description: Binary data
Re: Personal Debian mirror
Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > I ended up using apt-proxy to build a mirror of just the packages that I > use. Works great. How do you translate the /etc/apt/sources.list entries to apt-proxy backend configuration entries? Joerg > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 09:13:54AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > >>I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror >>(amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my >>mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages >>were dumped into folders under "pool/" and folders it created such as >>"stable", "unstable", and "woody" were essentially empty. (Now I am trying >>an rsync string to see what the difference will be.) >> >>I was wondering if other people could give me some feedback on how they did >>their mirrors. What commands did you use and where are there some good >>howto's on doing it as efficiently as possible? >> >>Also, since I don't want to mirror the ISO files I was wondering how >>difficult it would be to use something like jigdo to create the disks from my >>own mirror? >> >>Thanks, >>Preston -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Personal Debian mirror
Preston Boyington wrote: > I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian > mirror (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when > I tried it my mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it > should. All the packages were dumped into folders under "pool/" and That is correct. Packages in the pool may be shared between distributions. > folders it created such as "stable", "unstable", and "woody" were > essentially empty. Those should contain the Packages and Sources files. You should be able to point your sources.list there to retrieve them. > I was wondering if other people could give me some feedback on how > they did their mirrors. What commands did you use and where are > there some good howto's on doing it as efficiently as possible? I use debmirror. debmirror --verbose --progress --source --postcleanup --ignore-missing-release \ -e http --host ftp.us.debian.org -r debian \ -d woody,sarge -a i386,ia64 \ /mnt/mirrors/http.us.debian.org/debian > Also, since I don't want to mirror the ISO files I was wondering how > difficult it would be to use something like jigdo to create the > disks from my own mirror? The mirror that is created is no different than any other Debian package depot. Point to it normally. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Personal Debian mirror
I ended up using apt-proxy to build a mirror of just the packages that I use. Works great. On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 09:13:54AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror > (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my > mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages > were dumped into folders under "pool/" and folders it created such as > "stable", "unstable", and "woody" were essentially empty. (Now I am trying > an rsync string to see what the difference will be.) > > I was wondering if other people could give me some feedback on how they did > their mirrors. What commands did you use and where are there some good > howto's on doing it as efficiently as possible? > > Also, since I don't want to mirror the ISO files I was wondering how > difficult it would be to use something like jigdo to create the disks from my > own mirror? > > Thanks, > Preston signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Personal Debian mirror
On 8/4/05, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror > (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my > mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages > were dumped into folders under "pool/" and folders it created such as > "stable", "unstable", and "woody" were essentially empty. (Now I am trying > an rsync string to see what the difference will be.) This is normal. Since distributions often share packages, they are stored only once, in pool/, and the distribution directories refer to the pool packages. > I was wondering if other people could give me some feedback on how they did > their mirrors. What commands did you use and where are there some good > howto's on doing it as efficiently as possible? > > Also, since I don't want to mirror the ISO files I was wondering how > difficult it would be to use something like jigdo to create the disks from my > own mirror? If your mirror has all the packages it needs it should be easy - just give jigdo-lite the address of your own mirror instead of one of the main debian ones.
Personal Debian mirror
I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages were dumped into folders under "pool/" and folders it created such as "stable", "unstable", and "woody" were essentially empty. (Now I am trying an rsync string to see what the difference will be.) I was wondering if other people could give me some feedback on how they did their mirrors. What commands did you use and where are there some good howto's on doing it as efficiently as possible? Also, since I don't want to mirror the ISO files I was wondering how difficult it would be to use something like jigdo to create the disks from my own mirror? Thanks, Preston
