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Since Lucid's packages where moved from archive.ubuntu.com to old-releases.ubuntu.com I'm a bit worried about availability of the repository and want to provide a full local mirror.

Are you aware of a way to download the whole Ubuntu package repository (lucid, lucid-backports, lucid-security and lucid-updates) other than wget -r? I cannot connect with rsync or ftp to old-releases.ubuntu.com.

Edit: This question is not a duplicate of How to create a local APT repository? since the question is about how to mirror from old-releases.ubuntu.com without knowing which packages to mirror (otherwise I could have simply used apt-proxy).

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  • Are you trying to maintain very old equipment that can't upgrade to 12.04? – tlhIngan Jul 17 '16 at 19:59
  • @tlhIngan I have to maintain an automatic provisioning of a virtual machine based on Ubuntu 10.04. I know that we have to update to a current version of Ubuntu but that's not the task I'm assigned to :( – ooxi Jul 17 '16 at 20:01
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    You can try making a local mirror of the repos as described in any of the answers in this topic - http://askubuntu.com/questions/170348/how-to-create-a-local-apt-repository – Sledge Hammer Jul 17 '16 at 20:04
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    The Ubuntu archive stays "forever" . The `/etc/apt/sources.list` must be replaced with https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7S255p3kFXNalBaUFo0Q0VUY3c/view?usp=sharing → → Rename to `sources.list` – Knud Larsen Jul 17 '16 at 20:57
  • @KnudLarsen I know how to use `old-releaes.ubuntu.com` as package repository, but that doesn't solve the question of how to ensure it stays forever. There are many cloud services long gone which where promised to stay forever. And since `old-releases.ubuntu.com` is not mirrored like `archive.ubuntu.com` I'm worried even more. – ooxi Jul 18 '16 at 11:01

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There are some mirroring tools available, debmirror is one of them (apt-get install debmirror).

The following script (basically one command) hopefully works. The full release is quite many gigabytes, so I didn't test this thoroughly.

#!/bin/sh
debmirror -v --timeout=300 \
 --cleanup --host=old-releases.ubuntu.com \
 --root=ubuntu --method=http --diff=none \
 --getcontents --no-check-gpg \
 --no-source \
 --di-dist=lucid --di-arch=i386,amd64 \
 --section=main,restricted,universe,multiverse,main/debian-installer \
 --dist=lucid,lucid-updates,lucid-security \
 --arch=i386,amd64 /mirror/lucid
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