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Contributing with an apt mirror
Text on why it's good to contribute a mirror goes here
To get a fresh apt mirror up and running, you have to install two things - a webserver and apt-mirror.
Apt-mirror is available by default in Debian, Ubuntu and other distributions. If your server is running another distro you'll most probably have to install it manually from http://apt-mirror.sourceforge.net/
apt-get install apt-mirror
If your distro hasn't got the latest version of apt-mirror installed, you might have to apply a small fix for it to handle armhf packages the way it should. Just to be sure, run this at the command-line (as root)
sed -i 's/alpha\|amd64\|armel\|arm\|armhf\|hppa/alpha\|amd64\|armel\|armhf\|arm\|hppa/g' /usr/bin/apt-mirror
If you are on a Debian/Ubuntu based system, apache is installed by entering the following at the command line
apt-get install apache2
On RedHat based systems (Fedora/CentOS etc.) you use
yum install httpd
cron is installed by default on most systems, so we'll not cover it here.
The apt-mirror configuration file is available at /etc/apt/mirror.list , and do only need to contain the following lines
set nthreads 20
set _tilde 0
deb http://apt.xbian.org stable main imx6-jessie rpi-jessie rpi2-jessie
deb http://apt.xbian.org staging main imx6-jessie rpi-jessie rpi2-jessie
deb http://apt.xbian.org devel main imx6-jessie rpi-jessie rpi2-jessie
clean http://apt.xbian.org
You can test your configuration by running
apt-mirror
... in the command line. If it's successful, you'll end up with a new folder in /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/ thats called apt.xbian.org , in there is the now the full XBian apt repo.
Also make sure you copy the key from the apt source and put it in the www root
wget -P /var/www/ http://apt.xbian.org/xbian.gpg.key
apache2 does not need any special configuration, just make sure it's up and running with any of these commands depending on OS. As root:
service apache2 start # Ubuntu
/etc/init.d/apache2 start # Debian-based
/etc/init.d/httpd start # RedHat-based
Verify that your server is up by navigating to http://ip-or-hostname-of-server/
To get this running automatically, you'll have to create/edit /etc/cron.d/apt-mirror
To run mirroring each full hour you would use this
#
# Regular cron jobs for the apt-mirror package
#
0 * * * * /usr/bin/apt-mirror > /var/spool/apt-mirror/var/cron.log
And this will make apt-mirror run every day at 03:00
#
# Regular cron jobs for the apt-mirror package
#
0 3 * * * /usr/bin/apt-mirror > /var/spool/apt-mirror/var/cron.log
When done, restart the cron service using a method appropriate for your system
When everything is up and running, you need to create symlinks from your www-root to the recently created mirror, if you havn't customized anything the following commands will get the job done. As root:
ln -s /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/apt.xbian.org/dists /var/www/
ln -s /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/apt.xbian.org/pool /var/www/
Sometimes it's necessary to do a manual update of the mirror, thats as easy as entering the following at the command line (again as root)
apt-mirror
Make sure you have enabled directory listing in Apache2 so user can browse the different folders, and that only...
dists
pool
xbian.gpg.key
...are listed.
If you done with the mirror, contact us with the specificaties @ development@xbian.org