fai-mirror(1)
NAME
fai-mirror - create and manage a partial mirror for FAI
SYNOPSIS
fai-mirror [OPTION]... DIRECTORY
DESCRIPTION
This command creates a partial mirror of Debian packages. It can be
used to create the fai CD or as a local mirror when you can't download
the whole Debian mirror. By default the mirror will contain all packages of all classes used in the configuration space (/srv/fai/config/package_config).
OPTIONS
- -B Do not add packages included in base.tgz and packages defined in
- make-fai-nfsroot.conf to the mirror. By default all these packages are included in the mirror.
- -C CFDIR
- Use CFDIR as the configuration directory. Default is /etc/fai. You can also set the environment variable FAI_ETC_DIR.
- -c CLASS[,CLASS]
- Use only this list of classes for building the mirror. Can't be used in conjunction with -x.
- -h Show simple help and version.
- -x CLASS[,CLASS]
- Exclude these classes. Do not add the packages of these classes to the mirror.
- -p Preserve existing sources.list. NOT YET IMPLEMENTED.
- -v Create verbose output.
EXAMPLES
- # fai-mirror -v /files/scratch/mirror
- Creates a partial mirror in the directory /files/scratch/mirror using all classes.
# fai-mirror -v -cDEFAULT,DEMO /debmirror- Creates a partial mirror containing all packages used in the classes DEFAULT and DEMO.
NOTES
You only need root permissions if you access the official Debian mirror
via NFS. By default, the variable MAXPACKAGES is set to 1, so conflicting packages can also be added to the mirror. Setting this to a higher
number (e.g. 99999) reduces the time for creating the mirror, but some
packages may be missing.
SEE ALSO
This program is part of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation). The FAI
homepage is http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai.
make-fai-nfsroot(8), install_packages(8)
FILES
- /etc/fai/fai.conf
- The FAI configuration file.
- /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf
- The FAI configuration file for the nfsroot.
- /etc/fai/apt/sources.list
- Package resource definition for FAI.
- /srv/fai/config/package_config/
- The FAI package configuration directory. This directory is defined by the variable FAI_CONFIGDIR.
- $NFSROOT/var/tmp/base-pkgs.lis
- The list of packages included in base.tgz inside the nfsroot.
- $NFSROOT/var/tmp/packages.nfsroot
- Additional packages that were added to the nfsroot by the configuration file /etc/fai/NFSROOT.
AUTHOR
- Thomas Lange <lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de>