[ubuntu-in] Setting up a local Ubuntu repository mirror

[Nandan Marathe]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Anurag Jain <anuragjainfzd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm planning to set a local Ubuntu repository mirror here in my college
> > server. Since many students are turning up towards using Linux and
> specially
> > Ubuntu is pretty famous among them, it takes incurs lots of time and
> > overhead to download packages from the main server. I my college we
> access
> > Internet via proxy and but the college website(and local ftp) hosted
> there
> > can be accessed directly. So if its is possible to create a mirror on
> that
> > server which will download and update the packages on its own, we'd be
> able
> > to use that as mirror and fetch the packages at a faster rate.
> >
> > I've gone through couple of blogs for creating local mirrors but not sure
> if
> > they'll surely work. So I need help regarding how to proceed with it
> along
> > with the specifications and requirements.
>
> There are various tools that you can use. Ubuntu main archive has
> rsync interface. So you can use rsync to sync packages from that to
> your local mirror. rsync will take some time to setup but it works
> well.
>
I have used apt-mirror a couple of times and it certainly works very well.
All you need to
do is set up a few parameters in  /etc/apt/mirror.list and you are set!.
Although the process
is very simple and intuitive, this link might help you :
http://www.howtoforge.com/local_debian_ubuntu_mirror
- Nandan

>
> The other tools is debmirror which you can use for partial mirroring
> of the repository. The man page is self explanatory.
>
> Yet another tool is apt-proxy. You need to set it up on a server. That
> server as proxy in apt-get or synaptic. When any package is downloaded
> because of an install request this package is cached. So the next
> machine using this proxy automatically uses cached package when
> another install request happens.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Onkar
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