This is with regards to "How To Create A Local Debian/Ubuntu Mirror With apt-mirror" After the configuration and I believe I was able to download all the necessary files (stable main contrib non-free), but when I tested it on my other newly configured server I get this error, after the "apt-get update" command. Code: W: Couldn't stat source package list http://192.168.0.211 sarge/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/192.168.0.211_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://192.168.0.211 sarge/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/192.168.0.211_debian_dists_sarge_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://192.168.0.211 sarge/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/192.168.0.211_debian_dists_sarge_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://192.168.0.211 sarge/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/192.168.0.211_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://192.168.0.211 sarge/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/192.168.0.211_debian_dists_sarge_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://192.168.0.211 sarge/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/192.168.0.211_debian_dists_sarge_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. If I checked my local mirror on the internet browser I can actually access the folders: http://192.168.0.211/debian Code: Index of /debian/dists/stable/main Icon Name Last modified Size Description[DIR] Parent Directory - [DIR] binary-i386/ 04-Jan-2006 11:12 - Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) Server at 192.168.0.211 Port 80 When I make an NMAP to the local mirror from another server: Code: mail:/# nmap -P0 192.168.0.211 Starting nmap 3.81 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2007-01-04 17:24 PHT Interesting ports on 192.168.0.211: (The 1655 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 80/tcp open http 110/tcp open pop3 111/tcp open rpcbind 113/tcp open auth 143/tcp open imap 752/tcp open qrh 993/tcp open imaps MAC Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 (D-Link Systems) Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 3.726 seconds is there something i missed? By the way, when I did this command: Code: /bin/bash /var/spool/apt-mirror/var/clean.sh there were no unnecessary files nor directories removed. Is this normal?
I suggest you run Code: su - apt-mirror -c apt-mirror again and check if there are any errors in the output.
Hi, I have encountered this problem too. And it is barely documented this one comes pretty close to how I could describe the problem. The problem is either : a) apt (client) cannot handle packages on a vhost. b) apt (client) has a problem with the symlinks I haven't tested it much further yet to find out wich one is exactly causing the problem but this is how I solved it : (a) Code: nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default Change : Code: RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/ to : Code: # RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/ (b) As a mirror takes quiet a bit of space and is something you don't want to lose then its a good idea to have it on a seperate partition or even disk. So : Code: mkdir /var/www/repositories chown apt-mirror /var/www/repositories mount /dev/[your mirror disk] /var/www/repositories for future use : Code: nano /etc/apt/mirror.list Change : Code: # set base_path /var/spool/.... on line :7 to : Code: set base_path /var/www/repositories/ when finished restart your webserver Now change your clients sources list to search the new path. As said : this way does probably more then is needed to fix the problem feel free to test it partitial and reply the method that does it alone I also know that I'm a bit late with respons but I had this problem now and this forum came close to my search string so it will be usefull for others too.
