debmirror option

[Tim Cutts]

On 8 Sep 2010, at 3:35 pm, Toomas Tamm wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 09:08 +0200, Marcus Wellnitz wrote:
>> Am Montag, 6. September 2010 22:52:07 schrieb mamadou diop:
>>> Hello. Currently I am using a debmirror script to create my local mirror.
>>> But, my problem is the size of the mirror must be about 27 Gb
>>> (arch I386, distribution ubuntu hardy) and my free disk space is about 22
>>> Gb. To correct this problem, i would not to use all the sections (main,
>>> restricted, universe, multiverse) but i want to use only one or two
>>> sections. What advises do you give me about this problem?
>> 
>> Try to use apt-proxy.
> 
> Another little-advertised alternative, which has worked here for ages,
> is apt-cacher .
> 
> deb http://apt-cacher.yki.ttu.ee/apt-cacher/ftp.ee.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib
> 
> This is pointing at an Estonian mirror. Adapt for your situation. The
> host apt-cacher.yki.ttu.ee needs apache2 and apt-cacher packages
> installed. Should even work without the apache.
> 
> There is also an apt-cacher-ng which should be even better, but I have
> not tried it.

+1 for apt-cacher - very nice because you automatically and painlessly build a mirror of only the packages you actually use at your site.

Regards,

Tim



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