How to download Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)'s repository?

Question

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).

Solution

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

Comments

[tlhIngan]

Are you trying to maintain very old equipment that can't upgrade to 12.04?

[ooxi]

@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 :(

[Sledge Hammer]

You can try making a local mirror of the repos as described in any of the answers in this topic - askubuntu.com/questions/170348/…

[Knud Larsen]

The Ubuntu archive stays "forever" . The /etc/apt/sources.list must be replaced with drive.google.com/file/d/0B7S255p3kFXNalBaUFo0Q0VUY3c/… → → Rename to sources.list

[ooxi]

@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.