Creating a Debian Repository with apt-mirror

mirror.list

It's very handy to have a local mirror of the Debian stable repository, especially if you want to do fast network installs and updates for multiple systems. By default, the Debian utility apt-mirror does a great job of pulling over packages, but to be able to use PXE netbooting and other cool tricks you need to do a few tweaks to its basic configuration.

#### START /etc/apt/mirror.list ####

set base_path    /var/spool/apt-mirror
set mirror_path  $base_path/mirror
set skel_path    $base_path/skel
set var_path     $base_path/var

set cleanscript $var_path/clean.sh
set _autoclean	1

set postmirror_script $var_path/postmirror.sh
set run_postmirror 1

#set nthreads    20
set nthreads    10
set limit_rate	100k

set _tilde	0

deb-i386   http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main/debian-installer main contrib non-free
deb-i386   http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main/debian-installer main contrib non-free
deb-i386   http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main/debian-installer main contrib non-free
deb-i386   http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-i386   http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free

deb-amd64  http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main/debian-installer main contrib non-free
deb-amd64  http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main/debian-installer main contrib non-free
deb-amd64  http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main/debian-installer main contrib non-free
deb-amd64  http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-amd64  http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free

deb-src    http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src    http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src    http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src    http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src    http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free

skip-clean http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-amd64
skip-clean http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-i386
skip-clean http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy-proposed-updates/main/installer-amd64
skip-clean http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy-proposed-updates/main/installer-i386


clean      http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
clean      http://security.debian.org/debian-security
clean      http://deb-multimedia.org/

#### End ####

#### START /var/spool/apt-mirror/var/postmirror.sh ####

#!/bin/bash

SRC_BASE="rsync://mirrors.usc.edu/debian/dists"
DEST_BASE="/var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists"

repo="wheezy wheezy-proposed-updates"
arch="amd64 i386"

for _repo in ${repo}; do
  for _arch in ${arch}; do
    /usr/bin/rsync --archive --verbose --compress --delete ${SRC_BASE}/${_repo}/main/installer-${_arch}/ ${DEST_BASE}/${_repo}/main/installer-${_arch}
  done
done

repo="wheezy wheezy-backports wheezy-proposed-updates wheezy-updates" 
section="contrib main non-free"

for _repo in ${repo}; do
  for _section in ${section}; do
    if [ -d ${DEST_BASE}/${_repo}/${_section} ]; then
      cd ${DEST_BASE}/${_repo}/${_section}
      if [ ! -d i18n ]; then
        mkdir i18n
      fi
      cd i18n
      rm -rf Translation-en*
      wget -q http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/${_repo}/${_section}/i18n/Translation-en.bz2
      cd ../../
    fi
  done
done

# End

#### END /var/spool/apt/var/postmirror.sh ####