[ILUG] Home apt mirror/server

[Conor Daly]

Running 4 RH-based machines at home.  I want to keep them up to date using
apt but don't want to have each machine contact ayo.ie.freshrpms.net
individually.  I'm on dialup at home but have the bandwidth available at
work for the downloads.  So, I want to run a local mirror but only of the
required files.  My plan is this:

create freshrpms/redhat/9/en/i386/base under my home webserver.
Populate that with 

wget -c http://ayo.ie.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/base/pkglist.freshrpms.bz2

etc.

set sources.list to point to:
rpm http://apt.cod.ie apt/freshrpms/redhat/9/en/i386 os

Now an: 
apt-get update && apt-get --print-uris dist-upgrade 
should give me a list of rpms required which can be downloaded at work,
brung home on CD and installed on the server.  All machines can then
apt-get dist-upgrade from the local mirror.

Am I missing anything?  Oh yeah, how to get the downloaded rpms into the
correct directories.  A combination of grep and cut should get me a set of
lists for different directories (RPMS.os RPMS.updates etc...).

Conor
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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