[vox-tech] HOWTO: Make Your Our Debian Mirror

[Stephen M. Helms]

Hello Mike,

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Stephen

On Friday 28 February 2003 02:54 am, Mike Simons wrote:
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>   This is a quick and dirty setup your own Debian Mirror Howto.
> I've been asked how to set one up several times but I've finally been
> asked by someone persistent enough to keep asking, you can thank them
> for this document :).

>   I have not looked at the debian version of the debmirror script in
> ages.  Ways my version was better than the packaged version include:
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> - Does not download a file unless it actually changed
>   (based on file size and timestamp check of remote to local)
> - Auto-resumes a file transfer if the transfer was aborted part way
>   through.
> - Don't change the local archive's Packages files until *AFTER* all
>   the files mentioned inside have been downloaded successfully
>   (this was you can use the mirror while it is syncing up, or after

* (this way you can use the mirror while it is syncing up, or after

>   a failed sync attempt).

> 3 - Setup a web server to serve your mirror:
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> If you don't already have a apache installed...
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> apt-get -y install apache
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> Add the following to /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
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> # Allow access to Debian mirror tree...
> Alias /debian/ /home/debian/mirror/
> <Location /debian>
>   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
> </Location>
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> Restart apache after the config change:
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> /etc/init.d/apache restart
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*or if you want apache 2.0 setup instead

* If you don't already have a apache2 installed...
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* apt-get -y install apache2
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* Add the following to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:
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* # Allow access to Debian mirror tree...
* Alias /debian/ /home/debian/mirror/
* <Location /debian>
*   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
* </Location>
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* Restart apache2 after the config change:
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* /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
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> 5 - Setup a dhcp server to allocated IP addresses:
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>   If you don't already have a DHCP server on the network you will be
> installing over you should.
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>   If you already have a DHCP server do not do the following steps.
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> Install the DHCP server
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> apt-get -y install dhcp
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> Put the following in /etc/dhcpd.conf

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* apt-get -y install dhcp3-server
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* Put the following in /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf

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> option domain-name-servers 192.168.123.1;
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> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> default-lease-time 600;
> max-lease-time 7200;
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> subnet 192.168.123.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>   range 192.168.123.16 192.168.123.254;
>   option broadcast-address 192.168.123.255;
>   option routers 192.168.123.1;
> }
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> Restart dhcp after the config change:
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> /etc/init.d/dhcp restart
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* Restart dhcp3 after the config change:
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* /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart
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>   note if you don't run a DNS server on your machine you will need to
> change the domain-name-servers line to be a coma separated list of
> correct servers.
>
>   note if your mirror machine is not also the gateway you will need to
> change the 'option routers'.
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>   The configuration above leaves some room (1-15) for static manually
> configured IP addresses.
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>   I will not cover setting up DNS or setting up your machine to be a
> masquerading firewall/gateway in this howto... but those are what the
> demo box does at the installfests.
>   I would suggest if you get the DNS server setup you may want to
> fake advertise your mirror as 'http.us.debian.org' so that you
> don't need to do the following steps.
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> 6 - Store a local sources.list file:
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>   On the mirror I keep a sources.list file prepared so that at install
> time when questions about what apt sources you want to use are asked
> one is handy.
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> cd /var/www
> wget http://simons-clan.com/~msimons/debian/mirror/sources.list
> chown debian:debain sources.list

* > chown debian:debian sources.list

So far so good.  I will be doing the update tonight since I am on dial-up=
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updates, I will let you know.

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dhcpd3 so that is why I added those options.

Stephen