Hi, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:10:37AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:30:30PM -0700, Pete Ashdown wrote: > > > Has anyone know of a method for mirroring through apt? I'm aware of > > > apt-move, but I can't seem to get it to do a complete mirror that grabs > > > everything and not just the distribution that I have in the sources.list. > > > It also creates empty directories for all the architectures, regardless of > > > whether they are actually used or not. > > > > have you looked at the debmirror package? it does this pretty well, > > and has examples at the bottom of the manpage. however, i think > > it only does rsync and ftp. wonder why it doesn't do http... > Well http is not that easy to parse and handle when you try to mirror a > whole dir recursiv especially when directory index is forbidden. > > If you intend to use debmirror I suggest to use it with debmirror-wrapper > http://people.debian.org/~absurd/debmirror-wrapper > > Another solution might be apt-proxy but IIRC it uses rsync as backend.
No, it can use http, ftp or rsync as backend, depending on what you specify...
man apt-proxy:
[...]
DESCRIPTION
apt-proxy is an advanced shell script designed to be run out of inetd,
and provides a clean, caching, intelligent proxy for apt-get, which
speaks HTTP to apt-get clients, and http, rsync or ftp to the back-end
server(s). Usually it is run on port 9999, mainly because that is the
default configuration, and people are lazy.
[...]
Regards,
Rene
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