Create a Local Mirror

[Harald Reindl]

Am Die, 2002-12-03 um 16.12 schrieb Bob Parnes:
hi,
> 
> I am new to this mailing list, and I hope you tolerate beginners.
> I am trying to set up fai for the first time, and much of it is new
> to me.
> 
> My problem is creating a local mirror. If I understand the fai guide,
> I should use mkedebmirror to download 4.2 GB of files. I began to do
> so through my dialup connection to the internet but soon realized that
> I had my numbers mixed up and that it would take too long. I could find 
> nothing in the mailing list archive that suggested an alternative, so
> I hope someone can help.
> 
> Considering what I have currently, I can think of two possibilities.
> 
> 1. I made up a local mirror, using apt-move. For my purpose, it would
> be good enough. However, it is missing a Release file, and I do not
> know how to create one, if even it is possible to do so.
> 
> 2. A short time ago, I used jigdo-lite to generate a set of woody CDs. 
> It took several weeks of running the program overnight. Is there a way 
> to use these CDs to produce a local mirror for fai? Each CD has a Release
> file, and presumably I could concatenate them. However, the .deb files 
> are in a pool subdirectory with a structure that differs from that 
> produced by debmirror.

take a look at the deb-package "mirror"...

hth
Harry

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