creating a mirror with debmirror

[Tim Cutts]

On 7 Feb 2011, at 12:18, Jurrie Overgoor wrote:

> Op 7-2-2011 12:18, mamadou diop schreef:
>> Hello, i would want to create a local mirror with debmirror. But, i would want it downloads only the packages defined in the classes in the configuration space.
>> Which option of debmirror can permit me to do that?
> 
> I don't think debmirror can do this for you. I use approx to do this. Another alternative is apt-cacher. And you have apt-proxy, but that one's deprecated I think. Good luck!

apt-cacher works fine with FAI - we use it here.  Just set up your apt-cacher somewhere, and edit the sources.list file in the NFS root to use it (and also in your config tree, if you copy a sources.list out from there)

Tim

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