[NBLUG/talk] Setting up a apt-get server

[E Frank Ball]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:46:26PM -0700, Mark Street wrote:
} Is there a specific HOWTO or some pointers on setting up and populating a 
} ftp/http tree for apt?  As well as using rsync to keep it all current....
} 
} I am looking into setting up a server for 100's....1000's of Red Hat client 
} machines.

I have an apt server at work where I have about a dozen machines to take
care of.  I just setup the directorties manually, then ran my update
script to download the files and setup apt.

I loaded the main os from CDs, and just use rsync to get the updates.
I run this from cron weekly, but suit yourself as to how often.

#!/bin/sh
cd /home/ftp/pub/RedHat/apt

rsync -av rsync://swdepot.scs.agilent.com/redhat-updates/9/en/os/i386/\* redhat-updates-9.0/redhat/RPMS.updates/.

rsync -av rsync://swdepot.scs.agilent.com/redhat-updates/9/en/os/noarch/\* redhat-updates-9.0/redhat/RPMS.updates/.


# genbasedir --bloat --bz2only /home/ftp/pub/RedHat/apt/redhat-9.0-i386/redhat os
# this one only gets run once, since this doesn't change

genbasedir --bloat --bz2only /home/ftp/pub/RedHat/apt/redhat-updates-9.0/redhat updates


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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com