On 2005-09-27, Carlo Sogono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to setup a local Ubuntu apt server but don't = know where to > start. I need something that syncs with official Ubuntu servers = but > I only want it to sync packages I define. Is this possible?
I searched Google for "setting up a partial apt mirror" and found the following possibility: a command named apt-move, which is mentioned on http://wclp.sourceforge.net/documentation/adminguide.wclin/node10.html . Linux Planet also has a tutorial at http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/5667/2/ However, what is your use case for this? If it's the common one that you have a bunch of machines and don't want to download the same packages for each machine gets updated, then you should look at using the apt-proxy program, which is available on Ubuntu. apt-proxy works like this: 1. you point apt-proxy at a full apt repository (can be the official one, can be a full mirror, it's not a bad idea in Australia to use a local mirror) 2. you point all your Ubuntu machines at the apt-proxy server 3. each time they update, the apt-proxy will store the files it downloads. if another machine requests the same package, it will use the stored one. So packages are only downloaded the first time they're requested, and apt-proxy only downloads the package onces If you do use apt-proxy, be sure to check its cache expiry time. It has a limit on how long it will store the packages for before it deletes them (so that it doesn't fill your hard disk with five year old package files). I find 3-6 months is a sensible value, but one SLUG user reported that it was set to 2 minutes by default, which is useless! -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
