debpartial-mirror1

Usage

Overview

debpartial-mirror is a command-line tool to generate partial Debian packages archives mirrors. It is designed to work (in particular) in Custom Debian Distributions framework, as an aid to create customization of debian systems.

Partial mirrors can be generated from different apt repositories (local created or remote ones) and can contain binary as well as sources packages.

Generated partial mirrors have the structure of standard apt repositories: please referr to APT documentation for explanation about this.

debpartial-mirror uses a configuration file to determine which packages, are to be downloaded and monitored to generate a local partial mirror. Packages can be specified by regular expressions, by list or by mirrors sections.

Default configuration file is /etc/debpartial-mirror.conf.

debpartial-mirror accept commands in the same way apt-get does, and unless the -h or --help is given, one of the commands below must be presented.

update

update update is used to resynchronize the package index files from specified sources.

upgrade

upgrade upgrade is used to dowload selected binary and source packages from specified mirrors. The first time this command is ran the partial mirror is generated: after this, only newer or updated packages will be downloaded into the mirror.

all

all all is used to perform both update and upgrade commands.

Options

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-h --help

Show summary of options.

-v --version

Show version of program.

-cCONFIGFILE --configfile=CONFIGFILE

Select the confiruration file.

-s --simulate

Do nothing, only simulate all. Actually it is not implemented

-sf --skip-files

Skip downloading of files. Actually it is not implemented

-sp --skip-packages

Skip downloading of packages. Actually it is not implemented