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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 APT's sources.list
    * It's fully pool compliant
    * It supports multithreaded downloading
    * It supports multiple architectures at the same time
    * It can automatically remove unneeded files
    * It works well on an overloaded Internet connection
    * 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 the 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 checksums also here.

CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES

   The mirror.list configuration supports many options, the file is well
   commented explaining 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 architectures 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

   HTTPS with sending Basic HTTP authentication information (plaintext
   username and password) for all requests: (this was default behaviour of
   Wget 1.10.2 and prior and is needed for some servers with new version
   of Wget) set auth_no_challenge 1 deb
   https://user:pass@example.com:443/debian stable main contrib non-free

   HTTPS without checking certificate: set no_check_certificate 1 deb
   https://example.com:443/debian stable main contrib non-free

   Source Mirroring: deb-src http://example.com/debian stable main contrib
   non-free

AUTHORS

   Dmitry N. Hramtsov <hdn@nsu.ru> Brandon Holtsclaw
   <me@brandonholtsclaw.com>



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