tags 457714 + patch thanks Hi,
Patch attached. -- Adrien Cunin aka Adri2000
--- apt-mirror-0.4.5.orig/apt-mirror
+++ apt-mirror-0.4.5/apt-mirror
@@ -254,6 +253,14 @@
die("Please explicitly specify 'defaultarch' in mirror.list") unless get_variable("defaultarch");
+######################################################################################
+## Create the 3 needed directories if they don't exist yet
+my @needed_directories = (get_variable("mirror_path"), get_variable("skel_path"), get_variable("var_path"));
+foreach my $needed_directory (@needed_directories) {
+ unless (-d $needed_directory) {
+ mkdir($needed_directory) or die("apt-mirror: can't create $needed_directory directory");
+ }
+}
######################################################################################
## Skel download
diff -u apt-mirror-0.4.5/debian/Debian-mirror.list apt-mirror-0.4.5/debian/Debian-mirror.list
--- apt-mirror-0.4.5/debian/Debian-mirror.list
+++ apt-mirror-0.4.5/debian/Debian-mirror.list
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
#
# set base_path /var/spool/apt-mirror
#
-# if you change the base path you must create the directories below with write privlages
-#
# set mirror_path $base_path/mirror
# set skel_path $base_path/skel
# set var_path $base_path/var
diff -u apt-mirror-0.4.5/debian/Ubuntu-mirror.list apt-mirror-0.4.5/debian/Ubuntu-mirror.list
--- apt-mirror-0.4.5/debian/Ubuntu-mirror.list
+++ apt-mirror-0.4.5/debian/Ubuntu-mirror.list
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
#
# set base_path /var/spool/apt-mirror
#
-# if you change the base path you must create the directories below with write privlages
-#
# set mirror_path $base_path/mirror
# set skel_path $base_path/skel
# set var_path $base_path/var
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