Setting up an apt-mirror for Cumulus Linux

You may want to setup a local apt repository to pull packages from for your Cumulus infrastructure. 

I followed the instructions found here: 
https://www.howtoforge.com/local_debian_ubuntu_mirror 

But I did find a few gotcha's that  I had to fix before I was able to use my local repo. Here is a sample of my /etc/apt/mirror.list

       
############# config ##################
#
# set base_path    /var/spool/apt-mirror
#
# set mirror_path  $base_path/mirror
# set skel_path    $base_path/skel
# set var_path     $base_path/var
# set cleanscript $var_path/clean.sh
# set defaultarch  
# set postmirror_script $var_path/postmirror.sh
# set run_postmirror 0
set nthreads     20
set _tilde 0
#
############# end config ##############

deb http://repo.cumulusnetworks.com CumulusLinux-2.5 main addons updates
deb http://repo.cumulusnetworks.com CumulusLinux-2.5 security-updates

# Uncomment the next line to get access to the testing component
# deb http://repo.cumulusnetworks.com CumulusLinux-2.5 testing

# Uncomment the next line to get access to the Cumulus community repository
# deb http://repo.cumulusnetworks.com/community/ CumulusLinux-Community-2.5  main addons updates

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main

# mirror additional architectures
#deb-alpha http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-amd64 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-armel http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-hppa http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-i386 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-ia64 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-m68k http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-mips http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-mipsel http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-powerpc http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-s390 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-sparc http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

clean http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian

I was able to use the instructions in the howto to build the mirror and present it via http. I did have some problems using it at first. Notice the error:

W: Failed to fetch http://mydebianrepo.mycompany.com/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/main/i18n/Translation-en  Hash Sum mismatch

And then I read this:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/217502/speed-up-apt-get-update-by-removing-known-ignored-translation-en

So to fix this put the line: 

Acquire::Languages "none"; 

on the Cumulus node at the end of the conf file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf

Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list

#
#

deb http://mydebianrepo.mycompany.com/CumulusLinux CumulusLinux-2.5 main addons updates
deb http://mydebianrepo.mycompany.com/CumulusLinux CumulusLinux-2.5 security-updates

# Uncomment the next line to get access to the testing component
# deb http://repo.cumulusnetworks.com CumulusLinux-2.5 testing

# Uncomment the next line to get access to the Cumulus community repository
# deb http://repo.cumulusnetworks.com/community/ CumulusLinux-Community-2.5  main addons updates
deb http://mydebianrepo.mycompany.com/debian wheezy-backports main
deb http://mydebianrepo.mycompany.com/debian wheezy main