Comment 46 for bug 1825755

*In a Jammy lxc container

I setup an apache server with these instructions [0]

edited /etc/apt/mirror.list

deb https://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/ubuntu/ jammy multiverse

pulled latest with apt-mirror
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apt-mirror
Downloading 14 index files using 14 threads...
Begin time: Wed Mar 27 13:21:19 2024
[14]... [13]... [12]... [11]... [10]... [9]... [8]... [7]... [6]... [5]... [4]... [3]... [2]... [1]... [0]...
End time: Wed Mar 27 13:21:26 2024

Processing translation indexes: [T]

Downloading 105 translation files using 20 threads...
Begin time: Wed Mar 27 13:21:26 2024
[20]... [19]... [18]... [17]... [16]... [15]... [14]... [13]... [12]... [11]... [10]... [9]... [8]... [7]... [6]... [5]... [4]... [3]... [2]... [1]... [0]...
End time: Wed Mar 27 13:21:30 2024

Processing DEP-11 indexes: [D]

Downloading 8 dep11 files using 8 threads...
Begin time: Wed Mar 27 13:21:30 2024
[8]... [7]... [6]... [5]... [4]... [3]... [2]... [1]... [0]...
End time: Wed Mar 27 13:21:31 2024

Processing cnf indexes: [C]

Downloading 2 cnf files using 2 threads...
Begin time: Wed Mar 27 13:21:32 2024
[2]... [1]... [0]...
End time: Wed Mar 27 13:21:32 2024

Processing indexes: [P]

5.4 GiB will be downloaded into archive.
Downloading 589 archive files using 20 threads...
Begin time: Wed Mar 27 13:21:32 2024
[20]... [19]... [18]... [17]... [16]... [15]... [14]... [13]... [12]... [11]... [10]... [9]... [8]... [7]... [6]... [5]... [4]... [3]... [2]... [1]... [0]...
End time: Wed Mar 27 13:27:25 2024

6.7 GiB in 1000 files and 562 directories can be freed.
Run /var/spool/apt-mirror/var/clean.sh for this purpose.

Running the Post Mirror script ...
(/var/spool/apt-mirror/var/postmirror.sh)

Post Mirror script has completed. See above output for any possible errors.

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double checked that we had something in /var/spool
/var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/ubuntu/dists/jammy

create symbolic link in apache - /var/wwww
ln -s /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/ubuntu/ /var/www/ubuntu
cd /var/www
ls
ubuntu_de -> /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/ubuntu//

edited /etc/apt/sources.list to get our apache hosted files
* only use this line in our sources.list, for readability

deb http://localhost/ubuntu_de/ jammy multiverse

# run apt-get update
root@jammy-list-mirror:/etc/apt# sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://localhost/ubuntu_de jammy InRelease [270 kB]
Ign:2 http://localhost/ubuntu_de jammy/multiverse amd64 Packages
Ign:3 http://localhost/ubuntu_de jammy/multiverse Translation-en
Ign:4 http://localhost/ubuntu_de jammy/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata
Get:2 http://localhost/ubuntu_de jammy/multiverse amd64 Packages [217 kB]
Get:3 http://localhost/ubuntu_de jammy/multiverse Translation-en [112 kB]
Get:4 http://localhost/ubuntu_de jammy/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata [8372 B]

We can see our apache-hosted symlink works as expected with packages from our
mirror.list pointed to our upstream repo (https://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/ubuntu/).

[0] https://blog.programster.org/set-up-a-local-ubuntu-mirror-with-apt-mirror

Thanks,
Heather Lemon