Hi,
I've put together an application (shell script, really) that I use
to maintain a local mirror of potato. It started out simple, but
has evolved into something I think others might be able to use. I
call it 'apt-move', but I could change that if necessary.
What it does (this is from the manpage I wrote for it):
NAME
apt-move - move cache of Debian packages into a mirror
hierarchy.
SYNOPSIS
apt-move [-ft] option...
DESCRIPTION
The apt-move script is used to move a collection of Debian
package files into a proper archive hierarchy of the form
debian/dists/... It is intended as a tool to help manage
the apt-get(8) file cache, but could be configured to work
with any collection of Debian packages.
Running apt-move periodically will assist in managing the
resulting partial mirror by (optionally) removing obsolete
packages and creating valid local Packages.gz files using
dpkg-scanpackages(8).
Well, that should be enough to at least give you an idea (the whole
thing is 9 pages). I'll just add here that there it also
(optionally) runs rsync to build a local mirror of all or part of
a Debian binary distribution. Another option lets you just mirror
the packages you currently have installed on your system.
I'm looking for a developer that would be interested in taking a
look at what I've done, with an eye toward packaging it.
If anybody is interested, e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm
subscribed to debian-user, but not to debian-devel. I don't have
any place to put the package that's publicly accessible, but I'll
be happy to e-mail a copy to anybody that wants one.
TIA,
Mike
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