Preston Boyington wrote: > I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian > mirror (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when > I tried it my mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it > should. All the packages were dumped into folders under "pool/" and
That is correct. Packages in the pool may be shared between
distributions.
> folders it created such as "stable", "unstable", and "woody" were
> essentially empty.
Those should contain the Packages and Sources files. You should be
able to point your sources.list there to retrieve them.
> I was wondering if other people could give me some feedback on how
> they did their mirrors. What commands did you use and where are
> there some good howto's on doing it as efficiently as possible?
I use debmirror.
debmirror --verbose --progress --source --postcleanup --ignore-missing-release \
-e http --host ftp.us.debian.org -r debian \
-d woody,sarge -a i386,ia64 \
/mnt/mirrors/http.us.debian.org/debian
> Also, since I don't want to mirror the ISO files I was wondering how
> difficult it would be to use something like jigdo to create the
> disks from my own mirror?
The mirror that is created is no different than any other Debian
package depot. Point to it normally.
Bob
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