[CentOS] CentOS are Debian / Ubuntu mirror

Tue Apr 20 05:34:13 UTC 2021
Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com>

Pulp is a bit overkill for my liking.


On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 2:44 PM Arnaud Gelly <arnaud.gelly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is Pulp not supposed to do what you want : RPM, DEB and more in the same
> software ?
>
> I'm not using Pulp, just reading their website.
>
> Regards,
> --
>
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 at 14:26, Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thank you. This at least point me in the right direction. I don't quite
> > want to setup 2 servers, or 2 VM's for this.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 2:03 PM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > At Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:55:54 +0200 CentOS mailing list <
> > centos at centos.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have some instructions on setting up a CentOS server as
> > > mirror
> > > > for Debian and Ubuntu distributions? I already setup a YUM mirror and
> > > this
> > > > works fairly well, but cannot seem to figure out how to mirror Debian
> > and
> > > > Ubuntu repositories.
> > >
> > > You need to grab a copy of debmirror, which is just a Perl script, so
> it
> > > should work under CentOS. I don't know where to get a version as a
> > tarball
> > > --
> > > I had an available VM running Ubuntu and just installed it there and
> NFS
> > > mounted the mirror disk from the CentOS server. There is a config file
> > for
> > > debmirror to control where you mirror from and just what you mirror
> > > (versions,
> > > arches, etc.). There is a man page and and example config file.  You
> then
> > > run
> > > debmirror from crontab (eg every day).
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, the Debian flavor repositories are not structured to
> just
> > > be
> > > rsync'ed like the CentOS repositories.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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