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Fred
Asked: 2009-12-12 08:01:13 +0800 CST

apt-mirror does not mirror the i18n directory

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I need to setup a local Ubuntu mirror so the whole network doesn't need to hit remote servers in order to update and install new packages. Following a brief tutorial found here, I managed to get a server up and running that correctly mirrors packages from the main and restricted categories. However, when I call apt-get update on a client, I get a couple of errors such as :

Ign http://192.168.1.18 karmic/main Translation-fr
Ign http://192.168.1.18 karmic/restricted Translation-fr

Checking back on the server, I see that apt-mirror only took the binary-amd64 directory of the mirror, and didn't take i18n that would provide Translation-fr.

The manpage for apt-mirror doesn't say anything about i18n, and Google is of no help either. How do I properly mirror i18n?

My current mirror.list file is as follows :

############# config ##################
#
# set base_path    /var/spool/apt-mirror
#
# if you change the base path you must create the directories below with write privileges
#
# set mirror_path  $base_path/mirror
# set skel_path    $base_path/skel
# set var_path     $base_path/var
# set cleanscript $var_path/clean.sh
# set defaultarch  <running host architecture>
# set postmirror_script $var_path/postmirror.sh
set run_postmirror 0
set nthreads     20
set _tilde 0
#
############# end config ##############

deb http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/ubuntu/archive karmic main restricted
deb http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/ubuntu/archive karmic-updates main restricted

clean http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/ubuntu/archive
ubuntu

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    At our work place we sync using a plain rsync script like this one. It's nice to know what's actually happening, which files we are getting, etc.

    #!/bin/ksh                                                                                                 

RSYNCSOURCE=rsync://se.rsync.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
BASEDIR=/export/install/mirror/ubuntu

rsync --recursive --times --links --hard-links \
      --exclude "Packages*" --exclude "Sources*" \
      --exclude "Release*" --no-motd \
      ${RSYNCSOURCE} ${BASEDIR}

rsync --recursive --times --links --hard-links \
      --delete --delete-after --no-motd \
      ${RSYNCSOURCE} ${BASEDIR}

    It's based on these instructions https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors/Scripts

    (The important part is the sync being in two stages.)

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