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daryl9
January 5th, 2020, 11:15 PM
I am attempting to create a local repo for Trusty, Xenial and Bionic releases using apt-mirror. This is a snippet for the mirrors.list, Trusty only

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# OFFICIAL TRUSTY REPOS #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse

I have a local NAS setup to mount on /var/spool/apt-mirror and the packages download to the NAS. I then link that downloaded repos to /var/www/html:

root@server: ls -l /var/www/html/total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10701 Dec 28 17:41 index.html
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 Jan 5 15:23 security -> /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Jan 5 15:22 us_archive -> /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/

This is the sources.list on the node that I am trying to update:

#deb cdrom:[Edubuntu 14.04.5 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20160803.1)]/ trusty main multiverse restricted universe

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://192.168.0.197/us_archive trusty main restricted
deb-src http://192.168.0.197/us_archive trusty main restricted

Here are the errors that I get:

root@HP:/etc/apt# apt update
Ign http://192.168.0.197 trusty InRelease
Get:1 http://192.168.0.197 trusty Release.gpg [933 B]
Get:2 http://192.168.0.197 trusty Release [58.5 kB]
Get:3 http://192.168.0.197 trusty/main Sources [1,064 kB]
Get:4 http://192.168.0.197 trusty/restricted Sources [5,433 B]
Get:5 http://192.168.0.197 trusty/main Translation-en [762 kB]
Get:6 http://192.168.0.197 trusty/restricted Translation-en [3,457 B]
Err http://192.168.0.197 trusty/main amd64 Packages 404 Not Found
Err http://192.168.0.197 trusty/restricted amd64 Packages 404 Not Found
Err http://192.168.0.197 trusty/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found
Err http://192.168.0.197 trusty/restricted i386 Packages 404 Not Found
Ign http://192.168.0.197 trusty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://192.168.0.197 trusty/restricted Translation-en_US
Fetched 1,895 kB in 5s (338 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://192.168.0.197/us_archive/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://192.168.0.197/us_archive/dists/trusty/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://192.168.0.197/us_archive/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://192.168.0.197/us_archive/dists/trusty/restricted/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I don't know what Ign means, Ignore maybe?? Obviously, Err means Error and 404 Not Found means that apt update can't find the packages.

So my question is why can't apt update find the packages? I've reviewed several docs online and for the most part they're all the same. Install apt-mirror, apache, configure mirrors.list etc... I don't see anything wrong. Can someone spot something that might be causing these errors?

Thanks

Daryl
Frogs Hair
January 5th, 2020, 11:42 PM
14.04 is no longer supported, so you would have to use the old releases repository. It may be time to install a supported release if possible.

From ask Ubuntu:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-software-or-upgrade-from-an-old-unsupported-release
daryl9
January 6th, 2020, 04:03 AM
14.04 is no longer supported, so you would have to use the old releases repository. It may be time to install a supported release if possible.

From ask Ubuntu:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-software-or-upgrade-from-an-old-unsupported-release


Yes I understand that 14.04 is no longer supported, but its the release that I'm kinda sort of stuck with. (Long story).

So, what you're telling me is that http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/ will not provide the packages for Trusty. Is that correct? However, if I browse through http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/, I don't see Trusty listed at all.

Thanks

Daryl
Frogs Hair
January 6th, 2020, 09:30 PM
14.04 has been added to extended maintenance (https://ubuntu.com/esm) for advantage customers and Ubuntu members so the repository would be active for security updates. ESM refers to security patches.The old releases repository appears to included those older point releases below , but the latest are still active. The apt get/offline/repository info dates from 2011.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Offline/Repository


From old releases directory.

The following releases are also available which have been superseded by later point releases (the current point release is available on releases.ubuntu.com (http://releases.ubuntu.com/) as usual):

Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (Precise Pangolin) (http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/)
Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (Trusty Tahr) (http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/trusty/)
Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (Xenial Xerus) (http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/xenial/)
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver) (http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/bionic/)
daryl9
January 12th, 2020, 10:52 PM
14.04 has been added to extended maintenance (https://ubuntu.com/esm) for advantage customers and Ubuntu members so the repository would be active for security updates. ESM refers to security patches.The old releases repository appears to included those older point releases below , but the latest are still active. The apt get/offline/repository info dates from 2011.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Offline/Repository


From old releases directory.

The following releases are also available which have been superseded by later point releases (the current point release is available on releases.ubuntu.com (http://releases.ubuntu.com/) as usual):

Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (Precise Pangolin) (http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/)
Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (Trusty Tahr) (http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/trusty/)
Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (Xenial Xerus) (http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/xenial/)
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver) (http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/bionic/)



Hello,

It took me a while to get back to this, and work on it a bit more. I followed the instructions for creating an offline repo as you suggested with the link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Offline/Repository. This doesn't really solve my dilemma. There are no packages downloaded.

After creating the repo as instructed, I ran the apt update command, and all came back good. Then I ran the apt upgrade and received fail after fail because there where no packages found. Without apt-mirror, how does a person download the packages for the repo?

Thanks

Daryl
daryl9
January 20th, 2020, 02:27 PM
Hello,

I'm still trying to get this issue resolved and I have some additional questions.

After following the instructions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Offline/Repository, I realized that apt-mirror isn't downloading everything that I need in order to create at local repo. For example it doesn't download Contents-amd64.gz and Contents-i386.gz from ./ubuntu/dists/trusty, nor does it download ./ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64 and its contents, so on and so on.....

I'm beginning to wonder if there are differences in apt-mirror? I'm not using a Ubuntu machine to create this repo, I'm using a Raspberry Pi which is using Raspbian Buster. I've always received an error telling me that apt-mirror couldn't find index files or packages or something for the armhf CPU, but I've just ignored that error because it doesn't pertain to what I'm doing and my mirrors.list file doesn't have anything that would even attempt to download armhf packages. Now I'm beginning to wonder if this apt-mirror is only meant for Raspbian? I wouldn't think that it would matter what apt-mirror I use, but perhaps it does?

Does anyone know if the apt-mirror in Raspbian would only work for Rasbian repositories?

Thanks

Daryl