[CentOS] CentOS are Debian / Ubuntu mirror

Tue Apr 20 13:14:06 UTC 2021
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>


> On Apr 20, 2021, at 12:34 AM, Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Pulp is a bit overkill for my liking.
> 

Coming back to the original question: mirror hosting variety of distributions, does not have to have any packaging or other tools used by those distributions. Public mirror box I support runs FreeBSD, and hosts mirrors of CentOS, Ubuntu, CPAN, EPEL, … 

I hope, this helps.

Valeri

> 
> 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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>>> 
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