building a debian mirror

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Alex wrote:

> i'm just curious what do people here do for building a mirror? i'm
> guessing most people don't want to download 5 gb of packages?

Package: apt-proxy
Maintainer: Chris Halls <halls at debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.3.6
Depends: wget | rsync, grep-dctrl, tcpd, netbase, ash, binutils
Recommends: apt
Suggests: wget, rsync, dpkg-dev, stat

Description: Debian archive proxy and partial mirror builder
 apt-proxy automatically builds a Debian HTTP mirror based
 on requests which pass through the proxy.  It's great for
 multiple Debian machines on the same network with a slower
 internet link.
 .
 The archive is automatically kept up to date using http,
 ftp or rsync.  Cache cleaning of unused and old versions
 is configurable.  You can also import the contents of
 your apt cache into the archive using apt-proxy-import.
 .
 For more information, see the apt-proxy homepage at
 http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net
 .
 The suggested packages are needed for the following
 features: wget for http/ftp backend support, rsync for
 rsyncd backends, dpkg-dev for apt-proxy-import and stat
 for improved apt-proxy performance.


Cheers,
Cristian