Drop in partial mirror

We are developing DebianMirror aka. apt-got as a drop in replacement for all those mirror scripts out there. As a goal, this Java based server program will act as a http-server which seamlessly act as mirror to several selectable (Debian-) mirrors or any other kind of (static) server structures that are reachable via http or ftp.

Files are fetched as soon as they are needed. Clients request a file and it will be downloaded from the server. After fetching the file for the first time it will get stored in a local mirror structur similar to the one found on the remote server. From now on it will be served from the local cache until the file on the server gets updated.

This way you do not have to worry about which files to cache and what architectures you want to mirror for your local client. The local cache will only contain files actually needed for your clients.

DebianMirror will help you reduce bandwidth consumption and is a smart way of speeding up the process of upgrades on Debian machines within your network segment.

We are planing on releasing a second version that runs as a servlet in a jsp-environment later.