Re: mirroring question

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:03:05PM -0400, Loren Jordan wrote: The question I have is, how can I get a mirror copy over http only? There are a couple of apt-get'able archives I use parts of and would like to mirror them as well for my own use. The problem is, they only allow http access.

Re: mirroring question [almost solved]

At 10:09 PM 8/9/2002 +0200, Mathieu.Segaud wrote: There is a patch for a debmirror for mirroring over http Attached to this mail. Regards, Mathieu Segaud This patch solved my problem! I was hoping that I wasn't going to re-write my script for this and I didn't have to. Thanks a lot for all the

Re: mirroring question

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:03:05PM -0400, Loren Jordan wrote: I just want to pull a copy of these packages just like they sit in the apt-get'able directory structure so I don't have to re-create the Packages[.gz] files and such... use apt-move, apt-proxy or demish (http://luon.net/~admar)

Re: mirroring question

apt-move and demish are really mirror programs that rely on apt for downloading of packages, while apt-proxy is 'just' a cache (you could also try squid instead of apt-proxy). another shameless plug Or you could try Apt-cacher: http://www.apt-cacher.com/ /another shameless plug Jonathan Oxer

Re: mirroring question

Oops! another shameless plug Or you could try Apt-cacher: http://www.apt-cacher.com/ /another shameless plug http://www.apt-cacher.org/