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APT-MIRROR

NAME

apt−mirror − apt sources mirroring tool

SYNOPSIS

apt-mirror [configfile]

DESCRIPTION

A small and efficient tool that lets you mirror a part of or the whole Debian GNU/Linux distribution or any other apt sources.

Main features:
* It uses a config similar to apts sources.list
* It’s fully pool comply
* It supports multithreaded downloading
* It supports multiple architectures at the same time
* It can automatically remove unneeded files
* It works well on overloaded channel to internet
* It never produces an inconsistent mirror including while mirroring
* It works on all POSIX complied systems with perl and wget

COMMENTS

apt-mirror uses /etc/apt/mirror.list as a configuration file. By default it is tuned to official debian mirror in Finland. Change it for your needs.

After you setup the configuration file you may run as root:

    # su − apt−mirror −c apt−mirror

Or uncomment line in /etc/cron.d/apt−mirror to enable daily mirror upgrades.

FILES

/etc/apt/mirror.list
Main configuration file

/etc/cron.d/apt−mirror
Cron configuration template

/var/spool/apt−mirror/mirror
Mirror places here

/var/spool/apt−mirror/skel
Place for temporarily downloaded indexes

/var/spool/apt−mirror/var
Log files placed here. URLs and MD5 summs also here.

KNOWN BUGS

Do not specify default http port (80) explicitly. (i.e. deb http://server:80/ sid ...)

AUTHOR

Dmitry N. Hramtsov <hdn AT nsu DOT ru>

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