apt-mirror(1) [debian man page]
APT-MIRROR(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation APT-MIRROR(1) NAME
apt-mirror - apt sources mirroring tool SYNOPSIS
apt-mirror [configfile] DESCRIPTION
A small and efficient tool that lets you mirror a part of or the whole Debian GNU/Linux distribution or any other apt sources. Main features: * It uses a config similar to apts sources.list * It's fully pool comply * It supports multithreaded downloading * It supports multiple architectures at the same time * It can automatically remove unneeded files * It works well on overloaded channel to internet * It never produces an inconsistent mirror including while mirroring * It works on all POSIX compliant systems with perl and wget COMMENTS
apt-mirror uses /etc/apt/mirror.list as a configuration file. By default it is tuned to official Debian or Ubuntu mirrors. Change it for your needs. After you setup the configuration file you may run as root: # su - apt-mirror -c apt-mirror Or uncomment line in /etc/cron.d/apt-mirror to enable daily mirror updates. FILES
/etc/apt/mirror.list Main configuration file /etc/cron.d/apt-mirror Cron configuration template /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror Mirror places here /var/spool/apt-mirror/skel Place for temporarily downloaded indexes /var/spool/apt-mirror/var Log files placed here. URLs and MD5 summs also here. CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES
The mirror.list configuration supports many options, the file is well commented explinging each option. here are some sample mirror configuration lines showing the various supported ways : Normal: deb http://example.com/debian stable main contrib non-free Arch Specific: ( many other arch's are supported ) deb-powerpc http://example.com/debian stable main contrib non-free HTTP and FTP Auth or non-standard port: deb http://user:pass@example.com:8080/debian stable main contrib non-free Source Mirroring: deb-src http://example.com/debian stable main contrib non-free ORIGINAL AUTHOR
Dmitry N. Hramtsov <hdn@nsu.ru> CURRENT AUTHORS
Dmitry N. Hramtsov <hdn@nsu.ru> Brandon Holtsclaw <me@brandonholtsclaw.com> perl v5.14.2 2012-01-28 APT-MIRROR(1)
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APT_AUTH.CONF(5) APT APT_AUTH.CONF(5) NAME
apt_auth.conf - Login configuration file for APT sources and proxies DESCRIPTION
APT configuration files like sources.list(5) or apt.conf(5) need to be accessible for everyone using apt tools on the system to have access to all package-related information like the available packages in a repository. Login information needed to connect to a proxy or to download data from a repository on the other hand shouldn't always be accessible by everyone and can hence not be placed in a file with world-readable file permissions. The APT auth.conf file /etc/apt/auth.conf can be used to store login information in a netrc-like format with restrictive file permissions. NETRC-LIKE FORMAT The format defined here is similar to the format of the ~/.netrc file used by ftp(1) and similar programs interacting with servers. It is a simple token-based format with the following tokens being recognized; Unknown tokens will be ignored. Tokens may be separated by spaces, tabs or newlines. machine hostname[:port][/path] Entries are looked up by searching for the machine token matching the hostname of the URI apt needs login information for. Extending the netrc-format a portnumber can be specified. If no port is given the token matches for all ports. Similar the path is optional and only needed and useful if multiple repositories with different login information reside on the same server. A machine token with a path matches if the path in the URI starts with the path given in the token. Once a match is made, the subsequent tokens are processed, stopping when the end of file is reached or another machine token is encountered. login name The username to be used. password string The password to be used. EXAMPLE
Supplying login information for a user named apt with the password debian for the sources.list(5) entry deb http://example.org/debian stretch main could be done in the entry directly: deb http://apt:debian@example.org/debian stretch main Alternatively an entry like the following in the auth.conf file could be used: machine example.org login apt password debian Or alternatively within a single line: machine example.org login apt password debian If you need to be more specific all of these lines will also apply to the example entry: machine example.org/deb login apt password debian machine example.org/debian login apt password debian machine example.org/debian/ login apt password debian On the other hand neither of the following lines apply: machine example.org:80 login apt password debian machine example.org/deb/ login apt password debian machine example.org/ubuntu login apt password debian machine example.orga login apt password debian machine example.net login apt password debian NOTES
Basic support for this feature is present since version 0.7.25, but was undocumented for years. The documentation was added in version 1.5 changing also the implementation slightly. For maximum backward compatibility you should avoid multiple machine tokens with the same hostname, but if you need multiple they should all have a path specified in the machine token. FILES
/etc/apt/auth.conf Login information for APT sources and proxies in a netrc-like format. Configuration Item: Dir::Etc::netrc. SEE ALSO
apt.conf(5) sources.list(5) BUGS
APT bug page[1]. If you wish to report a bug in APT, please see /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the reportbug(1) command. AUTHOR
APT team NOTES
1. APT bug page http://bugs.debian.org/src:apt APT 1.6.3ubuntu0.1 17 August 2017 APT_AUTH.CONF(5)