Setup

Here you can see the general approach to setup and create your package mirror, which is explained afterwards

sudo docker create --name pkg_mirror -v /var/spool/apt-mirror ubuntu
sudo docker run --rm --volumes-from pkg_mirror thomass/apt-mirror
sudo docker run -it --name www_pkg_data --volumes-from pkg_mirror -v /usr/local/apache2/htdocs ubuntu bash
sudo docker run -d --name apache_mirror -p 8888:80 --volumes-from www_pkg_data httpd

Step 1:

You should keep all mirror files in a data volume container which is created here

Step 2:

The apt-mirror container downloads the current sources from archive.ubuntu.com and stores the data in the previously created data volume container.

The apt-mirror image has it's own mirror.list which can be overridden by mounting the file as volume to this container: -v mirror.list:/etc/apt/mirror.list

Step 3:

Later a webserver would offer the mirror data. Within this data volume container we map the directory /var/spool/apt-mirror to the content directory of the webserver, here /usr/local/apache2/htdocs. Inside the data volume container we have to run:

ln -s /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ /usr/local/apache2/htdocs

Step 4:

The last step is offering the mirror data. Here we use the official docker httpd, which is grabbing it's public data from the linked volume under /usr/local/apache2/htdocs.

Usage

On the desired clients replace the URL inside your /etc/apt/sources.list with the one from the docker apache server. For instance:

sed -i s/archive.ubuntu.com/<ipToDockerServer>:8888/g /etc/apt/sources.list

Licence

The whole repository is licenced under BSD. Please mention following:

github.com/ThomasSteinbach (thomass at aikq.de)