Hello there,
I create a local APT mirror for the main component of the recent Ubuntu LTS releases using Aptly and the following bash script:
~$ aptly mirror list
List of mirrors:
* [netronome]: https://deb.netronome.com/apt/ stable
* [ubuntu-bionic-main]: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic
* [ubuntu-focal-main]: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal
* [ubuntu-jammy-main]: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy
* [ubuntu-noble-main]: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble
!#/bin/bash
distros=("bionic" "focal" "jammy" "noble")
for distro in ${distros[@]}; do
echo "Refreshing for mirror ubuntu-$distro-main"
aptly mirror update ubuntu-$distro-main
done
echo "Finished refreshing mirrors"
for distro in ${distros[@]}; do
echo "Creating snapshot for mirror ubuntu-$distro-universe"
aptly snapshot drop ubuntu-$distro-main
aptly snapshot create ubuntu-$distro-main from mirror ubuntu-$distro-main
done
echo "Finished creating snapshots"
for distro in ${distros[@]}; do
aptly publish drop $distro ubuntu
echo "Publishing snapshot ubuntu-$distro-main"
aptly publish snapshot ubuntu-$distro-main ubuntu
done
The mirror is hosted by Nginx. By manually configure the source.list, it works fine:
ubuntu@beast4:~$ sudo apt update
Get:1 http://{mirror_hostname}/ubuntu focal InRelease [3928 B]
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [128 kB]
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
Fetched 132 kB in 0s (363 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
~$ apt policy nano
nano:
Installed: 4.8-1ubuntu1
Candidate: 4.8-1ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 4.8-1ubuntu1 500
500 http://{mirror_hostname}/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
But, on a freshly deployed machine, it doesn’t show in the /etc/apt/source.list, and its GPG key was not loaded as well.
~$ gpg --list-keys
gpg: directory '/home/ubuntu/.gnupg' created
gpg: keybox '/home/ubuntu/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created
gpg: /home/ubuntu/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
MAAS was configured as belows:
Maybe I should not list 4 distros together?
Any ideas? Or I misunderstand the expected behaviour of package repos feature?
Many thanks!