debmirror option

[Michael Prokop]

* Tim Cutts <tjrc at sanger.ac.uk> [Wed Sep 08, 2010 at 03:44:58PM +0100]:
> 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 .

[...]

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

I just wanted to mention reprepro and its nice conf/updates
mechanism. Works fine for me to create full/partial mirrors of
Debian repos and can be used e.g. in combination with other tools
like apt-cacher[-ng], approx,...

regards,
-mika-
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