Did you try with debmirror? An example:
debmirror --host=packages.devuan.org \
--root=merged \
--dist=jessie \
--section=main \
--arch=amd64 \
--progress \
--method=http \
--nosource \
--ignore-release-gpg \
--ignore-missing-release \
/home/user/devuan
Aitor.
On 19/08/15 04:19, karl@??? wrote:
> Wyatt:
>> >Is there an up to date list of current mirrors,
> Don't know.
>
>> >and instructions on how to become a mirror anywhere?
>> >There's a forum post about it, but the links lead to empty pages on the git wiki.
> Mirroring debian was/is easy, in the old time you used the perl script
> mirror, and later on, rsync via the shell script anonftpsync.
>
> Mirroing devuan seems to be more complex, if you look below
> "Continuous Integration for Devuan" at:
>
> https://devuan.org/
>
> there is a program amprolla that handles the mix offtp.*.debian.org
> and the devuan packages. You can find amprolla here:
>
> https://git.devuan.org/devuan-infrastructure/amprolla
>
> from the README.md:
>
> amprolla is a rude script that generates rewrite rules for nginx that then try to merge
> the Devuan repository files ( like InRelease, Packages, Sources and so on ) with
> other external repositories ( namely, the Debian one ) in order to provide a full
> repository where Devuan packages have precedence over other repos.
>
> This allows Devuan to have a fully "meta distro" where missing Devuan packages
> come from Debian and/or other repositories
> (like, for example, the deb-multimedia.org from Marillat) without the need
> to create a fully merged repository.
>
> It works by downloading and merging files to create the dists/ directory
> structure for Devuan and then creating a pool of HTTP 302 redirects to
> the external repositories hosts for packages download.
>
> So setting up a devuan mirror involves amprolla (python), ngix, and I
> assume apache. You can not just copy the files and point boa the the
> directory.
>
> I suggest you clone the amprolla repo and study the files there, and
> look at packages.devuan.org with a ftp client to see the file structure:
>
> $ lftp packages.devuan.org
> lftp packages.devuan.org:~> ls
> drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Jun 02 09:29 alpha-iso-cd
> drwxr-sr-x 5 107 112 4096 Jun 16 00:15 devuan
> drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Mar 18 18:56 merged
> lftp packages.devuan.org:/> ls merged/
> lftp packages.devuan.org:/> ls devuan/
> drwxr-sr-x 12 107 112 4096 Mar 03 13:52 dists
> drwxr-sr-x 2 107 112 4096 Jul 12 03:46 indices
> drwxr-sr-x 3 107 112 4096 Dec 05 2014 pool
> lftp packages.devuan.org:/> ls alpha-iso-cd/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 1004 0 276 Jun 02 09:29 README.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 1004 0 28311552 Jun 01 13:04 devuan-jessie-netboot-i386-alpha2.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 1004 0 72 Jun 02 09:22 devuan-jessie-netboot-i386-alpha2.iso.md5sum
> -rw-r--r-- 1 1004 0 80 Jun 02 09:22 devuan-jessie-netboot-i386-alpha2.iso.sha1sum
> $
>
> Mirroring packages.devuan.org through ftp seems easy enough, but one
> would probably need help setting up amprolla.
>
> ///
>
> On a related note, how do I get a local mirror of devuan (a local
> mirror is good to have when you are usually in bad connected places
> or you are doing lots of installations/testing) ?
>
> Mirroringftp://packages.devuan.org/devuan/ and having a sources.conf
> like:
>
> debfile:/Net/debian jessie main non-free contrib
> debfile:/Net/ftp/packages.devuan.org/devuan/ stable main
>
> doesn't seem to work. What am I missing ?
>
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
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