http://www.osnews.com/story/16865/How_to_Create_a_Local_Debian_Mirror_with_apt-mirror Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:54:41 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?198522 http://osnews.com/thread?198522 who needs apt-mirror if one can just sync over ftp (for example, with rsync) and set up your own debian ftp source? Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (evert) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198538 http://osnews.com/thread?198538 Perhaps someone managing a local network where the computers have slight different package selections? Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (acobar) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198572 http://osnews.com/thread?198572 Another nice alternative if your only goal is improve speed and reduce bandwidth is to not build a whole mirror, but simply use a caching HTTP proxy. Apt will run across HTTP, and Squid takes almost no time to set up.

I have used this for an install party with a line not really big enough for everyone. Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (amadensor) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198609 http://osnews.com/thread?198609 apt-mirror takes care of repository consistency while mirroring. This may be important or not depending on your needs.

Debian repository contains data (packages) and metadata (ex. what packages are available). If you mirror metadata first, APT will try to download packages not yet mirrored and fail.

For other benefits, why don't you look at apt-mirror's homepage yourself. Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (saxiyn) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198650 http://osnews.com/thread?198650 I use apt-cacher in the company I work and its great. Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (taskovskig) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198755 http://osnews.com/thread?198755 Indeed and there are even apt-get specific proxies which can be used.

"approx" and "apt-proxy". The latter of which I wrote about here:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/338

Steve Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (skx2) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198758 http://osnews.com/thread?198758 You can save much more bandwith with lzma compressed debian packages (instead of gzip), here's the details:
http://www.linuks.mine.nu/sizematters/

Well who runs such a mirror? I do, for sid and i386 main. How does it work? Just put this line in /etc/sources.list and run apt-get update:

deb http://gnu.ethz.ch/debian-lzma/ sid main Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gurkan) Comments