-- Install software spencersr@shihan:~/temp$ sudo apt-get install debpartial-mirror Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: debpartial-mirror 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 12.1kB of archives. After unpacking 119kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://209.112.194.33 breezy/universe debpartial-mirror 0.2.10ubuntu1 [12.1kB] Fetched 12.1kB in 0s (13.5kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package debpartial-mirror. (Reading database ... 92248 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking debpartial-mirror (from .../debpartial-mirror_0.2.10ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Setting up debpartial-mirror (0.2.10ubuntu1) ... --- Edit config # debpartial-mirror configuration file. # # Author: Otavio Salvador # $Id: debpartial-mirror.conf 88 2004-06-16 15:34:56Z otavio $ [mirror] # mirror origin server server=http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ # mirror destiny directory local_directory=/home/spencersr/temp/ # extra files list to be downloaded (this accepts regular expressions) #files=doc/(.*.txt) # should I get the suggeted packages? get_suggests=true # should I get the recomended packages? get_recomends=true # should I get the provided packages? get_provides=true # witch archs should I download? archs=i386 [sarge] # If using debian-cd tasks, you need filter without any packages. See bellow #filter=main:-:- #include-task=/usr/share/debian-cd/tasks/debian-installer #exclude-task=/usr/share/debian-cd/tasks/exclude # Another filter example filter=main:base:* main:*:required main:*:important main/debian-installer:*:* #[unstable] #packages=main:apt-utils #exclude=main:lilo #filter=main/debian-installer:*:* --- Run (even via cron) spencersr@shihan:~/temp$ debpartial-mirror debpartial-mirror 0.2.10ubuntu1 - Partial mirroring tool for Debian - Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:00:30 +0100 (c) 2004 Otavio Salvador , Henrique Vilela This program is free software and was released under the terms of the GNU General Public License Making directory /home/spencersr/temp/dists/sarge... Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release Done Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release.gpg Done Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release.gpg Making directory /home/spencersr/temp/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386... Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Release Done Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Release Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Contents-i386.gz Done Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Contents-i386.gz Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Done Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Uncompressing /home/spencersr/temp/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Making directory /home/spencersr/temp/dists/sarge/main/debian-installer/binary-i386... Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Release Done Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Release Match: /home/spencersr/temp/dists/sarge/Contents-i386.gz Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz Done Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz Uncompressing /home/spencersr/temp/dists/sarge/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz Processing remote packages ... Processing local packages ... 1 of 1158 Making directory /home/spencersr/temp/pool/main/g/gcc-3.4... Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-3.4/libgcc1_3.4.3-13_i386.deb Done Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-3.4/libgcc1_3.4.3-13_i386.deb 2 of 1158 Making directory /home/spencersr/temp/pool/main/i/ispell-czech... Getting http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/ispell-czech/iczech_20040229-1_i386.deb ... 64% --- ok well that was easy..