mirroring a subset of packages

[Christian Bjälevik]

Hi Fernan,

ons 2007-06-20 klockan 14:20 -0300 skrev Fernan Aguero:
> Hi!
> 
> We have a number of machines running Ubuntu in the lab. Right now all
> of them download the updates. Instead we'd like to download them only
> once and have all machines update from our own internal archive.
> 
> But we don't have too much space and we'd like to mirror only what we
> use: we'd like to avoid mirroring Ubuntu packages for PowerPC, Sparc,
> and also some older releases.
> 
> I've checked the two staging script mentioned in the archives:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive/Syncscripts
> 
> and it seems like I could add a couple of extra --exclude lines to
> do what I want. But I don't know the organization of the archive
> well enough, so I'm asking for guidance to get the correct exclude
> invocations :)
> 
> Would these work?
> 
> --exclude '*-powerpc'
> --exclude '*_powerpc.deb'
> --exclude '*-sparc'
> --exclude '*_sparc.deb'
> --exclude 'dapper-*
> 
> Anyone doing something similar?

You would end up syncing dapper anyway. I would suggest that you take a
look at apt-proxy or debmirror instead :-).

Cheers, /N
-- 
Christian Bjälevik <nafallo at magicalforest.se>
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