On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:03:53PM +0530, Vikas B N wrote:
} A couple of colleagues and I are planning
} to set up an ftp/http server which hosts
} the debian packages, so that people can
} install Debian on their machines over the
} office intranet.
}
} What is the best way to go about this?
[...]
} Also, what is the best way to keep this
} server up-to-date? Guess, what I'm asking
} for is like a mirror of the Debian packages...
I use debmirror for this. It seems to give some spurious errors from time
to time, but it works pretty dependably. I have a cron job that runs in the
wee hours of the morning each day. (Actually, I mirror both at home and at
work; at work I only bother mirroring on weekday mornings.)
You can mirror using either rsync or ftp. Due to firewall issues, I use ftp
at work, but I recommend rsync if you can use it. This is the script I run
as a cron job:
#!/bin/sh
#MAIN="--host=rsync.kernel.org --root=:mirrors/debian/"
#MAIN="--host=ftp.debian.org --root=:debian/"
MAIN="--host=archive.progeny.com --root=:debian/"
#NONUS="--host=ftp.de.debian.org --root=:debian-non-US/"
#NONUS="--host=ftp.at.debian.org --root=:debian-non-US/"
NONUS="--host=nonus.debian.org --root=:debian-non-US/"
ARCH="--arch=i386,powerpc"
SECTIONS="--section=main,contrib,non-free --source"
debmirror /var/ftp/debian --method=rsync \
--dist=woody,sarge,sid \
$ARCH $SECTIONS $MAIN "$@"
debmirror /var/ftp/debian-non-US --method=rsync \
--dist=woody/non-US,sarge/non-US,sid/non-US \
$ARCH $SECTIONS $NONUS "$@"
} Thanks in advance,
} -vikas
--Greg
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