[CentOS] CentOS are Debian / Ubuntu mirror

Tue Apr 20 20:53:41 UTC 2021
Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com>

ok, so do you simply rsync the repositories from the other distributions
you need?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 3:14 PM Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>
wrote:

>
>
> > 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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Rudi Ahlers
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