Comments on: How To Create An Ubuntu Repository Mirror on Ubuntu 8.04

By: Christer Edwards

Christer Edwards — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:40:58 +0000

If you simply remove the configuration lines regarding the repositories you no longer want you should be set. It should not affect the repositories or packages that you want to keep, and should also autoclean the removed repository contents.

By: adrianherr

adrianherr — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:45:45 +0000

Hi,

I am new to the forum. Please can you help me with a apt-mirror issue.

I have three repository's but I no longer need one of them. How do I remove it without re-downloading the once I want?

Regards.

By: Zzypty Zzyp

Zzypty Zzyp — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:59:33 +0000

Hi!

If the amount of memory allotted on a particular server is small (less than the 37GB or 18gB you mentioned), what are the directories that can be excluded without causing too much of a flutter?

By: Clinton

Clinton — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:20:26 +0000

I have configured a machine with the mirror but do I need to update the mirror list and remove the http entries and simply just add the ip address of the server that mirrors all the updates?

By: Bart

Bart — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:29:32 +0000

I found a “low-tech” solution for when setting a local mirror is too much for a few computers:
http://nxadm.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/home-network-low-tech-trick-for-a-very-fast-ubuntu-release-upgrade/

(BTW: I set up your solution at work and I am the hero )

By: Johnnie

Johnnie — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:52:51 +0000

I am doing your steps into Hardy Heron but I can´t do than it works. I give me an error from ../bin/apt-mirror

I am not sure what can be but is difficult to me find the solve.

Thxs

By: DP

DP — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:25:50 +0000

Hi Christer,

I’m a little unclear about the syntax in the mirror.list file.

Is it necessary to list the d-i packages as:

deb-i386 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main main/debian-installer

Can the debian-installer branches be listed as:

deb-i386 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main/debian-installer

Or just incorporated into the first set?

Also, I’ve found that mirroring the d-i packages under updates and security breaks my network install: ie. placing:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main/debian-installer

Resulted in a broken install. I had to clean and and purge the mirror. Any idea why this is the case?

Thanks for the tutorial.

-DP

By: Nicco

Nicco — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:32:22 +0000

Thank You!

By: Christer Edwards

Christer Edwards — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:56:58 +0000

@Nicco – simply update the clients to point to something like:

deb http://ip.address.of.mirror/ubuntu hardy main restricted, etc..

It’ll require that the mirror machine has some web server installed (apache, lightty, etc). Otherwise its the same format as normal, just using your local IP vs the public address.

By: Nicco

Nicco — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:24:08 +0000

So after creating the repository mirror how does one access it from the client computers?

-Thank You